Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. From which detail you may deduce that this was written, or experienced, at a time when hob-nailed climbing boots were the norm. But while reading it, they are – because of the power of the surrounding writing – fleetingly visible. This edition has a fully revised introduction by Robert Macfarlane and paintings by landscape artist Rose Strang. The Living Mountain is a poetic and philosophical account of the author's decades of wandering in the Cairngorms.

Nan Shepherd travelled to countries around the world and yet it was the Cairngorms that endlessly inspired her and captured her imagination. I have carried a piece of juniper wood for months, breaking it afresh now and then to renew the spice.

I’ve read the Glass Palace as well which I liked and The Hungry Tide though in the latter there is some animal cruelty that was very upsetting. This 'New' condition hardback book in its 'New' condition slip case will be sent to you in The Folio Society's undisturbed waxed paper.

The final chapter, although very short, compressed all the layers of reflection, knowledge and experience, into something jewel-like, as she celebrated the holistic nature of her overall experience of those mountains, and the unending experiences and insights to be gained by concentration on the simplest of objects or happenings or from the landscape. Most works of mountain literature are written by men, and most of them focus on the goal of the summit.An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends. The bloodthirsty biographies of the world’s most infamous pirates are reproduced in this Folio edition of Captain Charles Johnson’s renowned work, including original woodcut illustrations and a fascinating introduction by Margarette Lincoln. A 2010 publication by the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development, “Gender Perspectives in Mountain Development”, noted that in the Himalayas, “despite receiving much smaller and more degraded forests, all-women groups outperform other groups and show better forest regeneration and improvement in canopy cover”. In the wettest season, when every fir branch in the woods is sodden, the juniper is crackling dry and burns with a clear heat.

In these pure and terrible streams the rain, cloud and snow of the high Cairngorms are drained away. I think the plateau is never quite so desolate as in some days of early spring, when the snow is rather dirty, perished in places like a worn dress; and where it has disappeared, bleached grass, bleached and rotted berries and grey fringe-moss and lichen appear, the moss lifeless, as though its elasticity had gone. Nan' Shepherd’s incredible ode to the Cairngorm mountain range is the perfect book to curl up with after a day spent out rambling, or on a slow Sunday morning with a mug of coffee. Shepherd lived her entire life near the Scottish Cairngorms, a place generally accepted as the wildest spot in the British Isles.

Signed by introducer, Robert Macfarlane, and artist, Rose Strang, this beautiful new Folio edition of Nan Shepherd? In this the “Happyfolk” live in peace and harmony at the foot of a mountain named Monkey, until the arrival of the “Stangefolk” and their mining of the mountain bring instability and destruction to the people and the wider world. Wilson’s classic account of evolution and biodiversity remains as relevant as when first published in 1992. Drafted in 1945, published in 1977, the slender book is a meditation on Scotland's Cairngorm Mountains, and a master class in listening to and seeing the landscape from someone who dedicated her life to being fully present in these mountains. In spite of talking about little else than nature, it is far more an interior rumination on the author’s part.