Living Mountain: Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland - Softcover
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd makes the familiar strange and the strange awe-inspiring. Her sensitivity and powers of observation put her into the front rank of nature writing.
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Introduced by Robert Macfarlane
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 1915, and went to work for the next 41 years as a lecturer in English at what is now Aberdeen College of Education. An enthusiastic gardener and hill walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends and was a keen member of the Deeside Field Club. The Living Mountain testifies to her love of the hills and her knowledge of them in all their moods. Her many further travels included visits to Norway, France, Italy, Greece, and South Africa, but she always returned to the house where she was raised and lived almost all her adult life, in the village of West Cults, three miles from Aberdeen on North Deeside.
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- PublisherAberdeen UP
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 0900015403
- ISBN 13 9780900015403
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages95
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The Living Mountain: A celebration of The Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Published by
Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen
(1984)
ISBN 10: 0900015403
ISBN 13: 9780900015403
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Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Good. Munro, Ian (illustrator). Second Edition. 1984. viii, 95pp. B&W illustrations by Ian Munro. Format the same as the first edition of 1977. "This book is a celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd, novelist and poet. Out of her love for them she finds - and communicates - excitement in seeking to know their essential nature - 'This is not done easily nor in an hour . However often I walk on them, these hills hold astonishment for me. There is no getting accustomed to them'." Moderate to heavy foxing to covers. Light foxing to edges and prelims. Seller Inventory # ScotLitSheph04
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The Living Mountain - "A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland'
Published by
Aberdeen University Press, Aberdeen
(1984)
ISBN 10: 0900015403
ISBN 13: 9780900015403
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Book Description Illustrated Card Cover. Condition: VG+. Munro, Ian (illustrator). 1st Identical Reprint. vii + 95pp; A Recent classic. Format exactly as first edition of 1977. Signs of light reading wear.Tight and clean and no significant marks or signatures. The lightest touch of browning near the spine, as is common, as may be just seen (or not) on the scan. Otherwise fine condition and in very collectible condition. See scans. Seller Inventory # 012145
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