The Living Mountain
A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
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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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4 primary books#4 in The Grampian Quartet
The Grampian Quartet is a 4-book series with 4 released primary works first released in 1928 with contributions by Nan Shepherd.
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For such a short book, it took me a long time to finish. Probably because it deserves to be thought over in some parts, and contemplated in the same way Shepherd contemplated the mountain.
It's also a bit trite at times, places where she interrupts herself and corrects herself, that just feel a little too staged. But it made me want to visit the mountains of Scotland.
