The Living Mountain - Kestrels Nest: BookWyrm Edition

114 pages

English language

Published Nov. 22, 2011 by Canongate.

ISBN:: 978-0-85786-183-2

The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first published. The manuscript was completed in 1944, Nan Shepherd showed it to a friend, who thought it would be tough to find a publisher.

Shepherd recevied one rejection and then left the MS in a drawer. In 1977, Aberdeen University Press printed a small edition. Later, Robert Macfarlane was introduced to it and wrote: "I read it, and was changed" in his first-rate introduction. You will be, too.

The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first published. The manuscript was completed in 1944, Nan Shepherd showed it to a friend, who thought it would be tough to find a publisher.

Shepherd recevied one rejection and then left the MS in a drawer. In 1977, Aberdeen University Press printed a small edition. Later, Robert Macfarlane was introduced to it and wrote: "I read it, and was changed" in his first-rate introduction. You will be, too.

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loppear reviewed The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

timeless time in the mountains

5 stars

Situated beautifully by Robert MacFarlane's introduction, a closely observed love of a nearby and natural and ecological space through seasons and life, an ode to mountain landscape once we look past getting to the top.

Rik reviewed The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

Beautiful account of the Cairngorms

5 stars

Amazing books about the writer's relationship with the Cairngorm mountains. It's all written in beautiful language, although with long complicated sentences. The way that she views nature and how she wanders around the place is very inspiring and uplifting.

Subjects

Natural history
Mountains
English literature
Scottish authors
Scottish literature

Places

Cairngorms
Scotland

Lists

In Relation To The Land