THE LIVING MOUNTAIN

In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encou nters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and r ecords the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'esse ntial nature' of the Cairngorms/ her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our ima ginative...[Read more]