DRAFT, DRAFT, DRAFT JANUARY 2023: Nick Ashton-Jones has had a career in environmental science and agronomy, mostly as a project manager. He is a writer. Having reached three score years and ten, he focuses on writing and being a grandfather. He has spent much of his life in the tropics. Mostly in Papua New Guinea and Africa, but also in SE Asia. He considers Nigeria his spiritual home because he was involved, in the 1990s, in the human rights issues arising from the oil extraction industry of the Niger Delta. The experience included a mock execution. This particularly focused his mind on the question that has preoccupied him ever since: How, have we come to the awful state of injustice and dispossession that has ravaged the ecology and the communities of the Niger Delta. And of our planet?
Nick has written and published half a dozen novels which reflect his obsession. The first part of his consideration of the human landscape, Landscape, Wealth and Dispossession, The Human Ecosystem, was published in 2018. The second part, Feudalism, published in 2019, was withdrawn in 2021, as inadequate for the task (a condemnation of capitalism, arising from the research). He is presently working on parts two and three, which cover late British feudalism and its transmogrification into the proto-capitalism of the 17th century. In 2022 he released a pre-publishing edition of Parallel Lives, his sixth novel. It considers inheritance in relation to quantum physics. He writes furiously every day. See www.parkerstreetpublications.com.
Nick can be contacted at any time by email - nickashtonjones@hotmail.com.
Nick has written and published half a dozen novels which reflect his obsession. The first part of his consideration of the human landscape, Landscape, Wealth and Dispossession, The Human Ecosystem, was published in 2018. The second part, Feudalism, published in 2019, was withdrawn in 2021, as inadequate for the task (a condemnation of capitalism, arising from the research). He is presently working on parts two and three, which cover late British feudalism and its transmogrification into the proto-capitalism of the 17th century. In 2022 he released a pre-publishing edition of Parallel Lives, his sixth novel. It considers inheritance in relation to quantum physics. He writes furiously every day. See www.parkerstreetpublications.com.
Nick can be contacted at any time by email - nickashtonjones@hotmail.com.