Publisher's Synopsis
Nan Shepherd's star continues to rise, year on year, and her meditation on the Cairngorms, The Living Mountain, has established itself as an all time classic of nature literature.
This volume includes a novella, ‘Descent from the Cross’ and many pieces of non-fiction which were discovered during research for Charlotte Peacock’s biography of Nan Shepherd, Into The Mountain, and later included in the collection Wild Geese. These range from her lyrical nature writings describing the landscape surrounding the River Dee, to portraits of the many characters she came across in everyday life.
The collection contains all the verses which are known to exist. This includes the poems in Nan’s only volume of poetry, In the Cairngorms (1934), and in addition, 12 poems which were recently discovered.
This beautiful hardback, with illustrations taken from the first edition (1977 Aberdeen University Press) of The Living Mountain, will make a superb gift edition of a very important section of her work.
