Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain

A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A beautiful, collectable gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Canongate Books
• Main
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 225mm x 146mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781786897350
• ISBN-10: 1786897350
• Artikelnr.: 55303098

Autorenporträt

Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends. She also travelled further afield - to Norway, France, Italy, Greece and South Africa - but always returned to the house where she was raised and where she lived almost all of her adult life, in the village of West Cults, three miles from Aberdeen on North Deeside. To honour her legacy, in 2016, Nan Shepherd's face was added to the Royal Bank of Scotland five-pound note.

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The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain Guardian