The Cairngorms Massif, in the eastern highlands of Scotland, is an elemental place of sky and space where snow lies all year around, a primeval mountain plateau rising out of the ancient pinewoods, a landscape in crisis. This vast and remote Arctic wilderness, home to a unique variety of rare fauna and flora, is immensely fragile and vulnerable to change. The encroaching tourist and leisure developments, deer estates, the current forestry techniques now threaten its death by unnatural causes. Jim Crumley's book argues that the Cairngorms are not a resource to be used and abused but a wild place vital to this crowded Isle's spiritual health. He proposes a radical solution to ensure the mountain's survival.
- ISBN10 0224026828
- ISBN13 9780224026826
- Publish Date 25 April 1991
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 November 2006
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Vintage Publishing
- Imprint Jonathan Cape Ltd
- Pages 157
- Language English