Earthwatch, The Rainforest Foundation, Gilchrist Educational Trust, Global Diversity Foundation, The Hakluyt Society, the Amazon Charitable Trust, Anglo-Peruvian Society and the Anglo-Brazilian Society. Aside from his involvement in exploration and Latin America, since 1963 he has worked for the Hemming Group Ltd, setting up and running one of the UK's foremost exhibition-organising companies, Brintex Ltd, before becoming chairman until 2015 of this family business, which also publishes trade titles including The MJ (Municipal Journal)'. In April 2008 his book, Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, was published by Thames and Hudson. It was described by Hugh Thomson in the Daily Telegraph as a book that "will stand as the definitive single-volume work on the subject." Another notable book was Naturalists in Paradise. Wallace, Bates and Spruce in the Amazon (2015). Personal life In 1979, John Hemming married Susan (Sukie) Babington Smith, daughter of Michael Babington Smith and granddaughter of Sir Henry Babington Smith. She worked for many years in The National Trust, became Director of Development and then Director of Corporate Affairs at the British Museum, and on retirement a trustee of English Heritage. She is the great-granddaughter of 9th Earl of Elgin on her father's side and the great-great-granddaughter of the 4th Earl of Clanwilliam on her mother's side. They have two children: publisher Beatrice (born 1981) and writer Henry Hemming. Honours In the 1994 New Year Honours, Hemming was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) by the British government. In August 2018, he was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy "for his work in the field of the colonial history and ethnography of Brazil and Peru, and the promotion of the protection of endangered societies". Bibliography (1970) Conquest of the Incas, London: Pan MacMillan (1973) Tribes of the Amazon Basin, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1978) The Search for El Dorado, London: Phoenix Books (1978) Red Gold: The Conquest of the Brazilian Indians, London: Pan Macmillan (1981) Machu Picchu, New York: Newsweek Books (1982) Monuments of the Incas, with Edward Ranney, New York: New York Graphic Society (1987) Amazon Frontier, London: Pan Macmillan (1993) Maracá: Rainforest Island, London: Macmillan (1998) The Golden Age of Discovery, London: Pavilion Books (2003) Die if You Must, London: Pan Macmillan (2008) Tree of Rivers: The Story of the Amazon, London: Thames and Hudson (2015) '' Naturalists in Paradise: Wallace, Bates and Spruce