The Mountains Are High: A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China 长销书 from the bombed-out streets of

from the bombed-out streets of Grozny to anonymous mountain villages

here is a rich and revelatory work that elevates the human need for motion to an art form

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The Mountains Are High: A Year of Escape and Discovery in Rural China 长销书 from the bombed-out streets ofWhat is it like to radically change your life? Writer Alec Ash meets the Chinese who are doing just this, reverse migrating from the cities to the remote countryside of southwest China and joins them himself, in an extraordinary and inspiring journey of self discovery. In 2020, Alec Ash left behind his old life as a journalist in buzzy Beijing, and moved to Dali, a rural valley in Chinas Yunnan province, centred around a great lake shaped like an ear