The Living Mountain (Canons): A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland: 6

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The Scottish landscape and weather played a major role in her novels and were the focus of her poetry. This 'New' condition hardback book in its 'New' condition slip case will be sent to you in The Folio Society's undisturbed waxed paper. This is the third publication in which Awoiska probes deeply into the essence of the remote unspoiled natural worlds where her images are created.

The language is rich, evocative and accurately records the author’s vision and experience, as though we are there too. Shepherd wrote descriptions that use all the senses in appreciating the beautiful, but sometimes unforgiving, mountains.Opgetekend in de jaren 40, gepubliceerd in 1977 en nu pas vertaald: de vitale ode van Nan Shepherd aan haar beminde Schotse bergketen Cairngorms bewandelde een talmend pad. It is something snatched from non-being, that shadow which creeps in on us continuously and can be held off by continuous creative act.

This book, written around the end of the Second World War and first published in 1977, has become a touchstone of landscape and place writing in the decade or so since Canongate published it in a new edition with an introduction from Robert Macfarlane. Cloudflare - Cloudflare is a service used for the purposes of increasing the security and performance of web sites and services. But looking at photos, I can just imagine all the little nuances and details hiding there, ready to share with anyone attentive enough to take their time.Twitter - Twitter is a real-time information network that connects you to the latest stories, ideas, opinions and news about what you find interesting.

But now and then comes an hour when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips out of time. This contains some of the most beautiful prose I’ve read in a long time but is not going to please everyone.

This is a book which allows you to escape to the wild and harsh environment of the Cairngorms through its pages. Her ace card is her capacity to lead the reader by the hand through the stunning Scottish Cairngorm ranges, walking together with her as an experienced and well seasoned guide along the marshy tracks, along the heathen plateaus and through the disorienting mist, seeing this magic world through her wide eyes that seem to take in every macro and micro detail. naarmate ik dieper doordring in het leven van de berg, dring ik ook dieper door in mijn eigen leven.