TY  - BOOK
AU  - Shepherd,Nan
AU  - Macfarlane,Robert
AU  - Winterson,Jeanette
TI  - The living mountain
SN  - 1786897350
U1  - 941.2/4 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Great Britain
PB  - Canongate Books
KW  - Shepherd, Nan
KW  - Natural history
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Cairngorms
N1  - Map of Cairngorm Plateau -- Introduction by Robert Macfarlane -- [Notes] -- Foreword by the author -- One: The plateau -- Two: The recesses -- Three: The group -- Four: Water -- Five: Frost and snow -- Six: Air and light -- Seven: Life: the plants -- Eight: Life: birds, animals, insects -- Nine: Life: Man -- Ten: Sleep -- Eleven: The senses -- Twelve: Being -- Afterword [A bed. A book. A mountain.] by Jeanette Winterson -- Glossary
N2  - 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 expores 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. -- inside front cover
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