114 pages
Langue : English
Publié 22 novembre 2011 par Canongate.
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.
Situated beautifully by Robert MacFarlane's introduction, a closely observed love of a nearby and natural and ecological space through seasons and life, an ode to mountain landscape once we look past getting to the top.
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 inspiring.
