Visayas: The Heart of the Philippines

The Visayas: The Heart of the Philippines is a work of narrative nonfiction that moves through seventeen distinct places in the Philippine Visayas — six major islands and a constellation of smaller ones — in search of what this long-overlooked region is and what it has been. April Dowell opens with a geological argument: the Visayas was made by tectonic violence and rising seas, by limestone seafl...