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Shepherd Nan - The Living Mountain A Celebration Of The Cairngorm Mountains Of Scotland - Hardcover
Shepherd Nan - The Living Mountain A Celebration Of The Cairngorm Mountains Of Scotland - Hardcover
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Description: The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain Guardian Introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette Winterson 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.
Title: The Living Mountain A Celebration Of The Cairngorm Mountains Of Scotland
Author(s): Shepherd Nan
Publisher: Canongate Books
Barcode: 9781786897350
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2019
Category: Natural History
Description: The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain Guardian Introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette Winterson 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.
Title: The Living Mountain A Celebration Of The Cairngorm Mountains Of Scotland
Author(s): Shepherd Nan
Publisher: Canongate Books
Barcode: 9781786897350
Pages: 176 Pages
Publication Date: 10/1/2019
Category: Natural History
