{"id":1901,"date":"2014-11-05T15:29:23","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=1901"},"modified":"2019-10-18T20:15:12","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T20:15:12","slug":"book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/","title":{"rendered":"Book: The English Love Affair with Nature"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3072\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3072\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/front-cover.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3072\" src=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/front-cover-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"Front cover\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/front-cover-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/front-cover.jpg 334w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3072\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/table-of-contents\/illustrations\/about-the-cover\/\">Cover design by Parul Babbar<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong><em>by <a title=\"About\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/about\/\">Ian Alexander<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We English, supposedly cold and unemotional, are <a title=\"Introduction\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/table-of-contents\/introduction\/\">helplessly in love with nature<\/a>. We fell in love 200 years ago, and since then have been on a wild roller-coaster ride through escapism, romanticism, art, animal cruelty, conservation, birdwatching, the back-to-nature movement and much more. Today we live with pets,\u00a0 wildlife documentaries and smartphone apps. <em>The English Love Affair with Nature<\/em> tells the story of our long, tangled and passionate romance, how we fell in love, and why we are still obsessed by nature.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Table of Contents\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/table-of-contents\/\">Table of Contents, Samples <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Reviews\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/reviews\/\">Reviews of the book<\/a>\u00a0 \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/talks\/english-love-affair-with-nature\/\">Talks\u00a0 (with Forthcoming Talks) <\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Available from:<\/strong>\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1909644463\/ianalexanshomepa\">Amazon.com<\/a> (commission paid) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1909644463\/ianalexswebsiteb\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a> (commission paid) \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gilbertwhiteshouse.org.uk\/\">Gilbert White&#8217;s House<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wwt.org.uk\/wetland-centres\/london\/\">WWT London Wetland Centre<\/a> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nhbs.com\/\">NHBS<\/a> \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.libreriadellanatura.com\/\">Libreria della Natura<\/a><\/p>\n<p>320 pages \u2013 \u00a312.50 (Paper) \u2013 \u00a34.99 (Kindle) <span class=\"ycbookshopblurb\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><a title=\"Contact\" href=\"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/contact\/\">Add a Comment<\/a><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Ian Alexander We English, supposedly cold and unemotional, are helplessly in love with nature. We fell in love 200 years ago, and since then have been on a wild roller-coaster ride through escapism, romanticism, art, animal cruelty, conservation, birdwatching, the back-to-nature movement and much more. Today we live with pets,\u00a0 wildlife documentaries and smartphone &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/book\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Book: The English Love Affair with Nature<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1901","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1901"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7168,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1901\/revisions\/7168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}