'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.
- ISBN10 0857861832
- ISBN13 9780857861832
- Publish Date 18 August 2011 (first published 15 November 2008)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Canongate Books Ltd
- Imprint Canongate Canons
- Edition Main - Canons Imprint Re-issue
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 160
- Language English