Kidnapped at age two, a refugee from the Chinese Communist revolution, a man who had seen the world by the time he was sixteen, Chi-Dooh Li had earned his comfortable life in America. But a throwaway comment by a man he had never met shook him awake to a shocking realization - an idea he pursued into the jungles of Guatemala during the heat of a brutal civil war, bringing him face to face with a people whose suffering defied imagination. "Buy This Land" is the unlikely but inspiring story of how lives were forever changed - all because a Spanish-speaking Chinese lawyer from Seattle once said yes to a crazy idea.