The Living Mountain

a celebration of the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland

114 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 2011 by Canongate.

ISBN:
978-0-85786-183-2
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The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first published. The manuscript was completed in 1944, Nan Shepherd showed it to a friend, who thought it would be tough to find a publisher.

Shepherd recevied one rejection and then left the MS in a drawer. In 1977, Aberdeen University Press printed a small edition. Later, Robert Macfarlane was introduced to it and wrote: "I read it, and was changed" in his first-rate introduction. You will be, too.

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Subjects

  • Natural history
  • Mountains
  • English literature
  • Scottish authors
  • Scottish literature

Places

  • Cairngorms
  • Scotland