Latitude Zero Special edition

With two forewords by Paul Theroux

Please note: book and special edition are launched in 2010. Pre-order now and receive your copy as soon as the book is printed.


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About the book:

‘Each poetic adventure is distinct, and each poet has sown a different plant in the miraculous forest of speaking trees.’ Octavio Paz

Latitude Zero is the culmination of a 25,000-mile odyssey that begins at the mouth of the Amazon River, moving in a westward direction, documenting the precious pact between humanity and nature within one degree north and south of latitude zero through Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, the Republic of Kiribati, the Republic of Nauru, Indonesia, the Maldives, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Republic of Congo, Gabon, and Sao Tome e Principe.

No itinerary or agenda was necessary. The purpose of Latitude Zero was to be as visually playful and uninhibited as possible, to simply be authentic and document life with a capital L. Any point within the equatorial zone was fair game, unless geography (Manaus) or politics (Mogadishu) dictated otherwise. And imagine a meal of beans and rice deep in southern Colombia’s rainforest with the FARC guerrillas, or eating turtles laced with honey with the Congolese pygmies, or dining in a loud testosterone-driven petrol platform cafeteria off Gabon’s Atlantic coast!

The work of the Swiss-American photojournalist, Monique Stauder has been published in TIME, the New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, GEO andMother Jones, among others. She has travelled from the camps of Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka to the island nation of East Timor, and from the Balkans to the Nuba Mountains in Sudan on behalf of international humanitarian NGOs and countless editorial publications. Stauder has master’s degrees in international relations and history.

Stauder’s photographs will be accompanied by two forewords from acclaimed American novelist and travel writer Paul Theroux. A prolific author, Theroux is best known for his travel books The Great Railway Bazaar and Riding the Iron Rooster, and his novel The Mosquito Coast, which was made into a film of the same name. 

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