Halifax regional council has turned down a proposal to allow limited development in a Purcells Cove wilderness area. A motion to allow some development in the backlands was defeated in a tie vote ...

A MAJOR stretch of Guyana’s backlands is being transformed through an extensive utility corridor and infrastructural ...

A narrow-gauge railway, wood-burning and rachitic, is the regular transport over the 1,000 miles between Rio and the boomtown of Anapolis, in Goiaz (see map). It takes four days & nights by rail to ...

The first thing visitors notice about the sertao, Brazil's dry outback, is the heat: it seems enough to keep anyone focused on where their next drink's coming from. But local cowboys have a different ...

Morris Asimow is a U.C.L.A. engineering professor who has an unusual and valuable talent: he likes to build factories from scratch, preferably in distant and inaccessible places. That talent is ...

“There is no therapy for the rage brought about by the clash of races suddenly fused into a single organism.” —Euclides da Cunha, Backlands At last year’s esteemed International Literary Festival in ...

Back in the waning days of the Brazilian dictatorship, hundreds of thousands of citizens, including some of my friends, attended a huge pro-democracy demonstration in Sao Paulo. On that night’s ...