His newspaper article entitled "Genocide in Brazil" (1969) prompted the creation of Survival International-an organisation dedicated to the protection of indigenous peoples around the world. Subjects he explored in his travel writing include life in Naples during the Allied liberation of Italy ( Naples '44) Vietnam and French colonial Indochina ( A Dragon Apparent) Indonesia ( An Empire of the East) Burma ( Golden Earth) tribal peoples of India ( A Goddess in the Stones) Sicily and the Mafia ( The Honoured Society and In Sicily) and the destruction caused by Christian missionaries in Latin America and elsewhere ( The Missionaries). While he is best known for his travel writing, he also wrote twelve novels and several volumes of autobiography. John Frederick Norman Lewis (28 June 1908 – 22 July 2003) was a British writer.
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