Hidden Valley

Finding freedom in Spain's deep country

By: Paul Richardson

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Hardcover | 5 January 2023 | Edition Number 1

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288 Pages

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2.9 x 14.6 x 22.3

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The story of the real 'good life' of an off-grid existence in rural Spain

Primed for a life of ambition and achievement, Paul Richardson fled the conventions of his middle-class upbringing to learn to live on the land in a rough-and-tumble village on the edge of Europe.

Immersing himself in the rural culture of his remote Spanish community, he learned the traditional arts of animal husbandry and vegetable growing, wine-making and home distilling, and made bread from the rye he sowed on the stone-walled terraces of his twelve-acre farm.

In prose that shimmers with wit and sensuality, the author charts his personal route-map along a road less travelled - from the city back to the land, and from insecurity to fulfilment. Along the way he pays tribute to the influences that have shaped his progress - from The Good Life to Henry David Thoreau, from the 1970s pioneers of self-sufficiency to his farming neighbours in the far-flung region of Extremadura.

In Richardson's hands off-grid living both becomes an act of rebellion and a form of personal growth. As environmental and social breakdown loom, the story of his interaction with land and nature offers heartening proof that a simpler, better life is possible, if only we can remove ourselves from the ethos in which conspicuous consumption is a duty and success/failure the wheel on which society turns.

Hidden Valley is a glorious narrative of one man's journey towards self-reliance. Original and thought-provoking, it is also hugely entertaining.

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