Dom Phillips: selfless, stylish writer at home in rave culture and the Amazon

Dom Phillips found an impressive second act as a foreign correspondent after editing the electronic music magazine Mixmag in the 1990s. Photograph: Paul Sherwood/Reuters

A week last Monday I was in a Farringdon pub for their weekly quiz. A friend brought along a mate of his, a Liverpudlian called Anthony Teasdale.

When Teasdale learned that I work in Brazil as a foreign correspondent, he asked, “Do you know a guy called Dom Phillips?”