Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.
Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published..
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.
Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape.
There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland
