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The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Nan ShepherdA beautiful, collectable gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane & with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, & a poetic & philosophical meditation on our longing for high & holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd makes the familiar strange & the strange awe-inspiring. Her sensitivity & powers of observation put her into the front rank of nature writing.
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 & shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores & records the rocks, rivers, creatures & 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, & 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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