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Title: The Living Mountain
Condition: New
Subtitle: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
Author: Nan Shepherd
Contributor: Jeanette Winterson (Afterword by), Tilda Swinton (Read by), Robert Macfarlane (Introduction by)
Format: CD
ISBN-10: 1786899566
EAN: 9781786899569
ISBN: 9781786899569
Edition: Main
Publisher: Canongate Books
Genre: Home Garden & Pets
Topic: Sports & Hobbies
Release Date: 15/08/2019
Description:

THE TIMES AUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian

In this masterpiece of nature writing, beautifully narrated by Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton, 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.

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