The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Canongate Books Ltd
Country
United Kingdom
Published
3 September 2019
Pages
176
ISBN
9781786897350

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

Nan Shepherd

‘The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain.’ - Guardian

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 magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.

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