Lead Review

  • Book: Sacred Sierra: A Year on a Spanish Mountain
  • Location: Castellon
  • Author: Jason Webster

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Content

A beautifully written book about life on a Spanish mountain, full of evocative images, and interesting learning. He quotes seasonally from Ibn al-Awam’s the Book of Agriculture – for example, he cites that almond trees are planted in the famer’s “first month of the year” because the trees are lovers of the cold; or, that figs at this time of year should not be drunk with wine, as the two do not mix well in the stomach”. An interesting and illuminating book.

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