The Living Mountain
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)
by Nan Shepherd
Should I read this?
Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Scotland, Travel, and Nonfiction.
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.Sh...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Scotland, Travel, and Nonfiction.
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Robert Macfarlane
“So: I propose that we take Nan Shepherd's slender masterpiece The Living Mountain as the first book in the #CoReadingVirus global Twitter Reading Group. It's a beautiful, moving, wise meditation on landscape, love, nature & the nature of being. (thread)”
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