The Living Mountain

A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

By: Nan Shepherd

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Paperback | 18 August 2011 | Edition Number 2

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Celebrating some of the most original works in recent years, The Canons are titles of enduring quality and importance that will challenge, inspire and be enjoyed by readers in generations to come.

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.

About the Author

Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1951 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends.

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* The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain Guardian * Most works of mountain literature are written by men, and most of them focus on the goal of the summit. Nan Shepherd's aimless, sensual exploration of the Cairngorms is bracingly different -- Robert Macfarlane

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Map of the Cairngorm Plateau	p. vii
Introduction	p. ix
Foreword by the author	p. xli
The Plateau	p. 1
The Recesses	p. 9
The Group	p. 16
Water	p. 22
Frost and Snow	p. 29
Air and Light	p. 41
Life: The Plants	p. 48
Life: Birds, Animals, Insects	p. 60
Life: Man	p. 76
Sleep	p. 90
The Senses	p. 96
Being	p. 105
Glossary	p. 109
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The Living Mountain

A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

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