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The Living Mountain
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
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The Living Mountain
A beautiful, collectible gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson.
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'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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Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain is praised as a brilliant exploration of nature and landscape in Britain, focusing on a sensual journey through the Cairngorms. It diverges from typical mountain literature by highlighting the immersive experience rather than the summit goal. The book is described as transformative, with language that evokes awe and is reminiscent of an incantation. Influencing modern nature writers, it is viewed as a masterpiece of nature writing, blending memoir, field notes, and lyrical meditation.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781786897350
Publisher: Canongate Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 01 August 2019
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Canongate Books
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Introduction by Robert Macfarlane
- Afterword by Jeanette Winterson
- Introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 21.0mm
Width: 144.0mm
Height: 220.0mm
Weight: 298g
Pages: 176
About the Author
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. To honour her legacy, in 2016, Nan Shepherd was added to the Royal Bank of Scotland five-pound note.
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