Ebook The Living Mountain A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland Audible Audio Edition Nan Shepherd Robert Macfarlane Jeanette Winterson Canongate Books Books
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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.Â
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 30 years before it was finally published.Â
Ebook The Living Mountain A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland Audible Audio Edition Nan Shepherd Robert Macfarlane Jeanette Winterson Canongate Books Books
"I received this as a gift and loved it. Within a few pages, I was googling flights to Scotland."
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The Living Mountain A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland Audible Audio Edition Nan Shepherd Robert Macfarlane Jeanette Winterson Canongate Books Books Reviews
- Nan Shepherd was a college professor, novelist (3 published works) and poet. This book is the last work she published, towards the end of her life. It is a paean to her love of the countryside where she spent most of her life, The Cairn Gorm mountain range in Northern Scotland. Brilliant, lyrical, a great tribute to the human spirit and Man's relationship to his (and her) environment. This belongs on every bookshelf, next to Gilbert White's "The Natural History of Selborne." This edition contains an overly long Foreword that attempts to tell us that we are going to enjoy reading Nan Shepherd's words. Skip it and just read her words. Or read it AFTER reading her words.
- When I started this book I did not know what to expect. I started at the beginning but soon found that I wanted to jump right into her words and not read through the intermediary introduction. I found myself marking passage after passage, laughing out loud, and being stung by the beauty of her words. Even though I know nothing of the lambs she references she brings them alive.
- Nan Shepherd's book about her lifelong love of the Cairngorm mountains is quite marvellous. I was drawn to it by reading Wild Places by one of my favourite authors, Robert MacFarlane. He knew & admired Nan Shepherd. She writes with great passion , knowledge & experience. Even if mountains & walking do not interest you, I believe you will enjoy getting to know the author & seeing that really experiencing & loving one landscape can be deeply fulfilling, deeply interesting.
- Ms Shepherd can really write, and this is the culmination of a lifetime wandering the Cairngorms. A long lovely prayer to a great mountain range, and after writing it, she sat it aside for 30 years to age, like a fine Single Malt Whiskey. And by the way, some of the worlds finest Single Malt's are made in, or immediately adjacent to the Cairngorms. And the water she write of so beautifully that flows out of the Cairngorms, goes into those great Scotch's. A great book to read to someone you love on one of those night's when the Moon, or the Demon's, interrupt sleep.
- Arrived quickly, well packaged. It looks like the cover has been beaten up a bit, but the book is fantastic.
- Easily one of the best books I've ever read. She makes the subject come alive, so that you can see, smell, hear and feel the Scottish mountains.
- The book did take a while to get to me from England, but that's alright. It was well worth the wait. Nan Shepherd is a true ecological genius ahead of her time. I strongly recommend you read any of her work you can get your hands on.
- I received this as a gift and loved it. Within a few pages, I was googling flights to Scotland.
