Fordlandia: the rise and fall of Henry Ford’s forgotten jungle city by Greg Grandin, Metropolitan Books, New York 2009
This book uncovers the complex history of Henry Ford’s attempt to create a secure source of natural latex in the Brazilian Amazon in the 1920s and ‘30s.  But it also reveals the complex and often contradictory character [...]

Roger Casement’s life does not fit neatly into one book.  As the child of a mixed marriage his early years are an account of rural Ulster life in the late 19th century.  His encounters with the vicious exploitation of rubber workers in the Belgian Congo and South America are tales of moral courage and physical [...]