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Title: THE LIVING MOUNTAIN
A CELEBRATION OF THE CAIRNGORM MOUNTAINS OF SCOTLAND
By: Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 0857863606
ISBN 13: 9780857863607
Publisher: CANONGATE BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 18 August, 2011
Edition: Main
Series: Canons 6
Description: With an introduction by Robert Macfarlane
Synopsis: 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.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Canongate Canons
Returns: Non-returnable
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