01/25/12

Taylor Moreland, son of a toughened and earth-bound farmer, longs to be a painter.  In part to escape his father’s expectations, Taylor travels to the Equatorial Andes in search of some of the vistas represented in the paintings of Frederic Church, one of America’s greatest landscape artists.  Traveling up the Amazon River and its tributaries, Moreland encounters bandits and hedonists, farmers and philosophers.  Interspersed with this adventure is the story of Moreland’s love affair with Quinn Yarbrough, a Harvard Divinity School student on her own parallel quest for spiritual fulfillment.  Ultimately, both set out to re-confirm their faith in Beauty.