{"product_id":"9781786899569-the-living-mountain","title":"The Living Mountain","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNan Shepherd's masterpiece of Scottish nature writing, read by the award-winning Tilda Swinton. Featuring an afterword by Robert Macfarlane and an essay from Jeanette Winterson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE TIMES \u003c\/i\u003eAUDIOBOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this masterpiece of nature writing, beautifully narrated by Oscar-winning actor Tilda Swinton, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of \u003ci\u003eThe Living Mountain \u003c\/i\u003elay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57356409569654,"sku":"9781786899569","price":13.02,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_36298259.jpg?v=1771875910","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781786899569-the-living-mountain","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}