The Living Mountain
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
$26.40
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
31 March 2012
Summary
In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.
Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the ‘essential nature’ of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the m…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857861832 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857861832 |
| Author: | Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane, Jeanette Winterson |
| Publisher: | Canongate Books |
| Imprint: | Canongate Canons |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Edition: | Main - Canons Imprint Re-Issue |
| Release Date: | 31 March 2012 |
| Weight: | 134g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Canons |
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Critics Review
“The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain.”
- The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain Guardian * Most works of mountain literature are written by men, and most of them focus on the goal of the summit. Nan Shepherd’s aimless, sensual exploration of the Cairngorms is bracingly different – Robert Macfarlane
About The Author
Nan Shepherd
Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends.
She also travelled further afield - to Norway, France, Italy, Greece and South Africa - but always returned to the house where she was raised and where she lived almost all of her adult life, in the village of West Cults, three miles from Aberdeen on North Deeside.
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