DECEMBER 2018: Nick Ashton-Jones has spent a life working in tropical agriculture, conservation and human rights. Ten years in Papua New Guinea, more than double that in West Africa but also central Africa and southeast Asia. He spent much of his time since 2004 in the Niger Valley establishing, with the local community, a large, commercially viable, mixed farm that underpins the economy of Weppaland in Edo State, Nigeria. Now in his sixties he is focusing on writing and publishing, most particularly the six parts of Landscape, Wealth and Dispossession, the first part of which was published in December 2018. The second part is ready for printing early 2019, and Part III is in progress. His fictional work reflects his life's interest in the environment, human rights and humankind's propensity to self-destruct. Contact him now.