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The Living Mountain Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain By Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

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Summary

Nan Shepherd's masterpiece of Scottish nature writing, read by the award-winning Tilda Swinton. Featuring an afterword by Robert Macfarlane and an essay from Jeanette Winterson

The Living Mountain Summary

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd

THE TIMES AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian

In this masterpiece of nature writing, beautifully narrated by Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton, 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.

The Living Mountain Reviews

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
[A] masterpiece of Scottish writing -- Anita Sethi * * Observer * *
A masterpiece . . . Amongst the greatest works of nature writing to come out of Britain -- Chitra Ramaswamy * * Scotsman * *
Reading [The Living Mountain] seems to me to explain why reading is so important. And odd. And necessary. And not like anything else. There is no substitute for reading -- JEANETTE WINTERSON
Tilda Swinton...narrates with a warm, slightly husky intensity that matches Shepherd's prose. The experience of reading it in a single sitting was, she said, "like riding the best possible hunter over the brightest possible hill: exhilarating barely covers it". -- Christina Hardyment * * The Times * *

About Nan Shepherd

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 1915 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. She also travelled further afield - to Norway, France, Italy, Greece and South Africa - but always returned to the house where she was raised and where she lived almost all of her adult life, in the village of West Cults, three miles from Aberdeen on North Deeside. To honour her legacy, in 2016, Nan Shepherd was added to the Royal Bank of Scotland five-pound note.

Tilda Swinton is an award-winning actor, known for her roles in films including I Am Love, We Need to Talk About Kevin, Michael Clayton and A Bigger Splash. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2007, is a recipient of the Richard Harris Award for her contribution to the British film industry and has been nominated for three Golden Globes. Swinton lives in the Scottish Highlands, close to Nan Shepherd's beloved Cairngorm Mountains.

Additional information

GOR010385981
9781786899569
1786899566
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
Nan Shepherd
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Canongate Books
2019-08-15
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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