Sacred Sierra

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<p>Jason Webster had lived in Spain for 15 years when he and his partner Salud, a flamenco dancer, tired of their city life and decided to buy a crumbling farmhouse clinging to the side of a steep valley in the eastern province of Castellón. He knew nothing about farming - he didn't even know what an almond tree looked like, or that he owned over 100 of them - but with help from local farmers and a twelfth-century book on gardening he set about recreating his dream.</p><p><i>Sacred Sierra</i>tells the story of their first year on the mountain, and how they cleared the land, planted and harvested olives, nurtured precious, expensive truffles, all while surviving gale force winds and scorching summer fires. While toying with the timeless, he also retells ancient legends and as the year passed, finds himself increasingly in tune with the ancient, mystical life of the sierra, a place that will haunt your imagination and raise your spirits.</p>

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Brought up in England, Jason Webster has lived for many years in Spain. His acclaimed non-fiction books about Spain include<i>Duende: A Journey in Search of Flamenco</i>;<i>Andalus:</i><i>Unlocking the Secrets of Moorish Spain</i>;<i>Guerra: Living in the Shadows of the Spanish Civil War</i>;<i>Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain</i>and<i>The Spy with 29 Names.</i>His Max Cámara series of crime novels started with<i>Or the Bull Kills You</i>, which was was longlisted for the CWA Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards New Blood Dagger 2011. This was followed by<i>A Death in Valencia</i><i>,</i><i>The Anarchist Detective, Blood Med</i>and<i>A Body in Barcelona.</i>

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