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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

As an infant, he immigrated to in the Antipodes with his Scottish and English parents in search of a better life. Disembarking onto the land of opportunity, and into migrant housing in urban
industrial suburbs, he was immersed in that rich mixture of European hopefulness surrounded by Germans, Slavs and the inescapable Brits all vying for jobs in building and manufacturing.
Expectations of a government or professional job were eventually achieved with a posting to a western Victorian school. It was only being posted to that agricultural community that he met an indigenous person. He saw that apprehension on their faces. What is this one going to demand? And what did he and others demand of the people and their land.

Alerted to the environmental impacts of commercial rural industry on the land, Nunn looked at our habitat. What it was expected to provide for its investors, and what it left for the community.
Society demanded timber from the forests and meat from the pastures. The diversity of the native habitat was not seen nor considered a resource. Now he turned to the sea and the impact of trade. Where better to start than the Norsemen’s exploits into other settlements and at clash of worlds. The Mythic Image a term Joseph Campbell made famous is entwined in all societies to give the peoples concepts of themselves and their relationship to their world. It is no coincidence that religion and states revere spiritual images. Ian draws his inspiration from his experiences living and growing in a foreign land with differing cultures. Nunn currently lives in New South Wales, Australia.