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The Living Mountain
Written in the 1940s, published thirty years later — Shepherd's account of knowing the Cairngorms not as a destination to be conquered but as a presence to be inhabited. The most precise nature writing in English.
Allo's take
Shepherd discovered a way of writing about landscape that makes every other approach seem like tourism. Macfarlane says it is the greatest mountain book ever written. Allo agrees.As an Amazon Associate, byallo earns from qualifying purchases.