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Pas de couverture — Nan Shepherd: The Living Mountain (2011, Canongate)

114 pages

Langue : English

Publié 22 novembre 2011 par Canongate.

ISBN :: 978-0-85786-183-2

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.

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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Rik a publié une critique de The Living Mountain par Nan Shepherd

Beautiful account of the Cairngorms

5 étoiles

Amazing books about the writer's relationship with the Cairngorm mountains. It's all written in beautiful language, although with long complicated sentences. The way that she views nature and how she wanders around the place is very inspiring and uplifting.

Sujets

Natural history
Mountains
English literature
Scottish authors
Scottish literature

Lieux

Cairngorms
Scotland