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Jenks’s life reveals complex links between fascism and ecology
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Farming, Fascism and Ecology: A Life of Jorian Jenks by Philip M Coupland (Routledge, £27.99)
BORN in 1899 to a middle-class family espousing liberal politics, Oxford graduate Jorian Jenks bucked tradition. From an early age, all he ever wanted to be was a farmer.
Managing to realise this in his thirties, he eventually lost his farm due to the bleak economic climate of the period.
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