- Paperback: 108 pages
- Publisher: Canon Gate (15 Nov 2008)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1847674240
- ISBN-13: 978-1847674241
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 13.1 x 1 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 204,911 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain.
--Guardian
--Guardian
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"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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36 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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The Living Mountain is Nan Shepherd's love song to The Cairngorms. Many (probably most) books about mountains are written to show man (and it normally is men) on or against mountains. This book is different. This book places the author with the mountains.
This is an intimate and detailed study of the Cairngorms that focuses far more on rivers and light, the freezing of streams and the disorientation of mist, than it does does peaks or particular journeys. In this way the book seems directionless, but only if direction is defined in a geographical fashion. If the direction of travel relates to a journey of understanding then the book is not directionless at all, and charts the authors growing knowledge of the mountains.
If you are looking for a book full of daring deeds and heroic ascents, then this is not the book for you. If you are looking for a thoughtful account of how people build an emotional connection to a place and how individual aspects of that place can combine to form wonder, then you should read this book.
Highly recommended.
This is an intimate and detailed study of the Cairngorms that focuses far more on rivers and light, the freezing of streams and the disorientation of mist, than it does does peaks or particular journeys. In this way the book seems directionless, but only if direction is defined in a geographical fashion. If the direction of travel relates to a journey of understanding then the book is not directionless at all, and charts the authors growing knowledge of the mountains.
If you are looking for a book full of daring deeds and heroic ascents, then this is not the book for you. If you are looking for a thoughtful account of how people build an emotional connection to a place and how individual aspects of that place can combine to form wonder, then you should read this book.
Highly recommended.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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if you've reached the point of near boredom with the thousands of macho books of near death, tragedy and successful climbs which are typical of biographies and novels of the mountains, then you will find this a breath a fresh air.
Nan's use of language is poetic and beautifully visual and completely different from anything you will usually read about living and enjoying the mountains.
This is a must read for anyone who loves the Cairngorms, Scotland, or mountains in general. But if you simply have a love of beautiful language then you will find this a perfect introduction to the wilderness.
Nan's use of language is poetic and beautifully visual and completely different from anything you will usually read about living and enjoying the mountains.
This is a must read for anyone who loves the Cairngorms, Scotland, or mountains in general. But if you simply have a love of beautiful language then you will find this a perfect introduction to the wilderness.
17 of 18 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
For those who love the mountains for the emotional, spiritual and inspirational nourishment that they provide, then this book expresses it all in a very personal relationship with the mountains written in both poetic and philosophical prose. Beautifully written avoiding all the usual action, disaster and/or heroics associated with mountain stories.
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Toiling zenwards in the Cairngorms
Nan Shepherd achieves in the Living Mountain,an irradiation of the `common' into the `universal'.She is a friend of the mountains and visits them like a friend. Read more
Published 2 months ago by technoguy
Lovely
I found this to be a very relaxing read, almost old fashioned. Anyone who has a love for the mountains will enjoy this book
Published 3 months ago by Ivan Buick
Excellent
Brilliant enjoyable book.really takes you somewhere else. A real treasure.Takes you for a walk to places you will never go to physically.
Published 3 months ago by minnie
Mindful journey into the wild
I should quickly thank Jeanette Winterston for bring this book to my attention on Radio 4, but my praise is really meant for Nan Sheperd and the time she spent craft & detailing... Read more
Published 4 months ago by A. Hughes
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