Title: The living mountain
First published: 1977
Description: The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first published. The manuscript was completed in 1944, Nan Shepherd showed it to a friend, who thought it would be tough to find a publisher.

Shepherd recevied one rejection and then left the MS in a drawer. In 1977,  Aberdeen University Press printed a small edition. Later, Robert Macfarlane was introduced to it and wrote: "I read it, and was changed" in his first-rate introduction. You will be, too.
Subjects: Great britain, history, Natural history, Mountains, English literature, Scottish authors, Scottish literature
Places: Cairngorms, Scotland