A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland (Canons)
by Nan Shepherd
Recommended by Robert Macfarlane
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nature, Hobbies, and Travel.
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 explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.Sh...
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in Nature, Hobbies, and Travel.
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Robert Macfarlane
“So: I propose that we take Nan Shepherd's slender masterpiece The Living Mountain as the first book in the #CoReadingVirus global Twitter Reading Group. It's a beautiful, moving, wise meditation on landscape, love, nature & the nature of being. (thread)”
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