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The Living Mountain (Canons): A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland: 6

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Written in the 1940s but unpublished until 1977, Nan Shepherd’s intense, poetic exploration of the Cairngorms is now recognized as a classic. The story opens with the narrator and his online bookclub friend Maansi, two people who only interact on books and know little else of each other, discussing possible themes for the next year’s reading.

As I watch, it arches its back, and each layer of the landscape bristles – though 'bristles' is a word of too much commotion for it. It is therefore when the body is keyed to its highest potential and controlled to a harmony profound deepening into something that resembles trance, that I discover most nearly what it is to be. Nan Shepherd's writing is meditative without being soppy, observant without being pedantic, poetic without being self-consciously overwritten. At first glance, this seems like a deceptively simple and modest book: Nan Shepherd describes her experiences and explorations in the Cairgorm Mountains in northeastern Scotland, a region she has lived in for decades, in the first halve of the 20th century. This is the third publication in which Awoiska probes deeply into the essence of the remote unspoiled natural worlds where her images are created.

A number of readers of this Folio Society edition of this book have been very pleased with this celebratory and timeless ode to nature. It has been translated into a number of different languages and its author, who died in 1981, now graces the Scottish five-pound note. There's nothing better under the girdle when scones are baking - unless perhaps small larch twigs, fed into a fire already banked. The Folio edition of The Diversity of Life features wonderful colour wildlife images and a foreword by Bill McKibben. It is, as with all creation, matter impregnated with mind: but the resultant issue is a living spirit, a glow in the consciousness, that perishes when the glow is dead.

The greatest compliment I can give The Living Mountain as an album is that I have continued to hear it, echoing in my head as Nan Shepherd’s prose did before, long after the album has finished and I’ve left the house to go for a walk by the river or in the woods. Amongst the greatest works of nature writing to come out of Britain -- Chitra Ramaswamy * * Scotsman * * Reading [The Living Mountain] seems to me to explain why reading is so important. In time, as the Antropoi climb, some among the conquered tribes start to conquer and achieve domination over their own. Awoiska van der Molen: ‘Regardless of how personal the starting point of my work may be, in the end I hope my images touch the strings of a universal knowledge, something lodged in our bodies, our guts, an intuition that reminds us of where we came from ages ago.Details are no longer part of a grouping in a picture of which I am the focal point, the focal point is everywhere. Hotjar sets this cookie to know whether a user is included in the data sampling defined by the site's daily session limit. An impassioned ode to Nan Shepherd’s beloved Cairngorm mountains in the Scottish Highlands, her poetic descri

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