From the November 2019 Issue Creating Pax Xinguana People of the Rainforest: The Villas Boas Brothers, Explorers and Humanitarians of the Amazon By John Hemming
From the November 2015 Issue Conqueror of Chimborazo The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science By Andrea Wulf
From the October 2015 Issue Rogue of Rocinha Nemesis: One Man and the Battle for Rio By Misha Glenny LR
From the July 2015 Issue Spirit of the Pampas Living in the Sound of the Wind: A Personal Quest for W H Hudson – Naturalist & Writer from the River Plate By Jason Wilson LR
From the April 2015 Issue Three of a Kind Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon By John Hemming LR
From the December 2012 Issue Native Wisdom The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies? By Jared Diamond LR
From the June 2013 Issue Putting Brazil on the Map The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha By Susanna B Hecht LR
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