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The Living Mountain

Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane, Jeanette Winterson

From Shelf: Natural History

A masterpiece of Scottish nature writing by Nan Shepherd, now introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson

'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' GuardianIntroduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette WintersonIn 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.

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
160
Publisher:
Canongate Books
ISBN:
9780857861832
Published Date:
18/8/2011
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 9mm
Weight:
113g
Category:
Natural history

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780857861832


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