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The Living Mountain
by Nan Shepherd
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Nan Shepherd recounts her journeys into Scotland's Cairngorm mountains, attending to water, rock, weather, plants, animals, and the body's changing experience of the landscape. Rather than treating a summit as a prize to conquer, she explores what it means to know a place through repeated, attentive encounters. The mountains can be harsh as well as beautiful, and her affection never erases their independence from human wishes. Shorter and quieter than a plot-led novel, this sensuous work of narrative nature writing offers an unexpected spiritual register: wonder arising from close contact with the material world. (canongate.co.uk)
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