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The Living Mountain

A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
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"Beautifully written, densely pleasurable book - glorious"
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Review by sarah on 23rd June, 2016

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This is a perfect distillation of the emotional and spiritual experience of the Cairngorm mountains – so economically written that almost every sentence delivers intense sensation. An extraordinary book, particularly given how little known it has been.

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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.

Author Biography:

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. Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination (2003), won the Guardian First Book Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge with his family.
Release date Australia
August 18th, 2011
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  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Afterword by Jeanette Winterson
  • Introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Edition
Main - Canons Imprint Re-Issue
Pages
160
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Dimensions
129x198x9
ISBN-13
9780857861832
Product ID
10372112

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