{"id":8452,"date":"2023-03-14T12:05:41","date_gmt":"2023-03-14T12:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/?page_id=8452"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:42:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:42:53","slug":"books","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.obsessedbynature.com\/blog\/books\/","title":{"rendered":"Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The English Love Affair with Nature<\/a> (2015)<\/h2>\n\n\n
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A gentle history of how something very curious came to be: a whole nation in love with an abstract thing. The book tells how the nation fell in love, and then (How do I love thee? Let me count the ways…<\/em>) describes some of the many ways that the English show their love for nature, from Art and Geology to Birding, Angling, Gardening and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

West London Wildlife<\/a> (2022)<\/h2>\n\n\n
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A beautiful book about the wildlife you can see right here in London. A team of experts and nature-lovers (you pays your money and you takes your pick which of those two groups I belong to!) describes fourteen varied places in West London where you can see a wonderful array of animals, plants, and fungi, living wild and free. I wrote five of the book’s chapters. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

English Reserve<\/a> (2025)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Mayhem in Middlesex<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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A humorous fictional account of shenanigans in a nature reserve as the volunteers work on varied tasks, chatting continuously. Meanwhile some of the visitors are clearly up to no good. They get their come-uppance and the reserve is set to rights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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