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Winter Pasture: One Woman’s Journey with China’s Kazakh Herders
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Author:
Li Juan, Jack Hargreaves, Yan Yan
Publisher:
Astra House
Date:
February 23, 2021
Li Juan and her mother own a small convenience store in the Altai Mountains in Northwestern China, where she writes about her life among grasslands and snowy peaks. To her neighbors' surprise, Li decides to join a family of Kazakh herders as they take their 30 boisterous camels, 500 sheep and over 100 cattle and horses to pasture for the winter.
What The Reviewers Say
People can figure out how to survive under the most punishing circumstances, and learning about how these people do it—how they have done it for centuries—makes Winter Pasture an unlikely but inspiring getaway read for the late pandemic.
A memoir about hauling snow, shoveling manure, and living in a mud hut in one of the harshest environments on earth may not sound like a pleasure read. Yet, miraculously, Li Juan’s Winter Pasture is somehow just that. Part travelogue and part cultural exchange, the book luxuriates in wide-open spaces and the simple wonder of the everyday.
Readers who enjoy descriptive writing about challenging lives will love this work..
A warm portrait of stark, strenuous lives in remote China.
