This intensely lyrical and radical ‘memoir’ of the Cairngorm Mountains in Scotland was written in the last years of WW2, but only published in 1977. The long-overlooked Modernist novelist and poet writes with acute perception of what she calls ‘the elementals’ and what they call out in us in response: “…when the silence is all but absolute, and listening to it one slips out of time…”. A tale full of joy and wisdom, of ecstasy and awe. (Also available in paperback).
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland
£14.99
Edition:Hardback978178689735001/08/2019
Categories: 16. Spring Books 2023: Some of our Recent Favourites, Natural History, Spring Books 2023
Tags: Memoir, Mountains, Scotland
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