The Unconquered: In Search of the Amazon's Last Uncontacted Tribes

Using notes from Captain Frederick Bailey, a British secret agent who’d stumbled across a hidden valley in Tibet in the 1930s while reconnoitering with rebel groups in Asia, Fisher helped locate the fabled Kintup Falls, a thundering cascade that conceals the entrance to the deepest canyon on the planet. From there, Fisher moled his way into lost wo

Efforts to delimit a reserve for the Yanomami – who inhabited the west of the state and southern Venezuela – had begun in the late 1970s, stimulated in part by the pioneering reporting of the British journalist Norman Lewis. The Yanomami had suffered badly from Amazon expansionism. In the early 1970s, when the government decided to build a road alo

Far to the southeast, along the India-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal bursts of orange and blue lightning.

Unknown Mexico: A Record of Five Years’ Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre.

I began to feel how patronising it was of us to presume to judge their intelligence, as if ours was any kind of standard by which to measure. I tried to imagine instead how he saw us, but of course that’s almost impossible to do, because the assumptions you end up making as you try to bridge the imaginative gap are, of course, your own, and the mos