{"id":2067,"date":"2014-11-07T13:31:49","date_gmt":"2014-11-07T13:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=2067"},"modified":"2023-06-15T19:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T19:51:23","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The English Love Affair with Nature<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hallo, I’m Ian Alexander.<\/p>\n

Authors are supposed to demonstrate their special expertise in their subject, being expert falconers or gardeners or whatever.<\/p>\n

The author of a book about a nation’s love of nature <\/a>cannot claim to know more about love than anyone else; nor to be more particularly English, whatever that is; nor to have seen more than a tiny part of nature. But my own lifelong love is in a way a miniature figure of how my country loves nature: first one way, then another, then yet another: and in multiple ways all at once. I became fascinated by the question of how, why, and when a whole nation fell in love: and why I did.<\/p>\n

I was the lead author of three books<\/a> on software engineering, contributed chapters to two others, and published many peer-reviewed articles<\/a>. Apart from writing, I enjoy gardening, photographing nature<\/a>, reviewing books<\/a>,\u00a0 and giving talks<\/a>. I’ve started a blog about humans and our world<\/a>, to take an oblique look at the environmental crisis.<\/p>\n

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Contact me<\/a><\/p>\n

All the images on this site are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License<\/a>. This means in human-readable terms that you may copy any image for any purpose provided you attribute the work to me, and if you modify the image, you also impose the same condition on the resulting work, without implying that I endorse the modifications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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