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Dreaming of El Dorado
The approach to La Rinconada, a gold-mining town nestled under a glacier in the Peruvian Andes.
In La Rinconada, Peru, the highest human habitation in the world, legions of miners seek gold and one young girl seeks an education.
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Issue: Fall 2012 / Volume 88/4
Published: September 16, 2012
Marie Arana is Writer at Large for the Washington Post and Senior Consultant to the Librarian of Congress. She is the author of the memoir American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood (Dial, 2001), a finalist for the National Book Award; the novels Cellophane (Dial, 2006) and Lima Nights (Dial, 2009)...
Gina Nemirofsky is a field producer for the documentary 10×10. She has worked as a freelance field and story producer on programs for MTV, CNN, Current TV, and Discovery Health. She recently shifted from television to feature documentary production, helping to produce a global crowd-sourced documentary, One Day on Earth.