Gwen Moffat certainly left an impression on us all and for the second book club of the year, Gwen has inspired us to get outside. Our next book club will be on the 25th of June and it’s going to be outside, in the Cairngorms!
At the height of summer, we’ll pick a walk to a picturesque spot on the Cairngorm Plateau where we can set up for an evening with Nan Shepherd.
For more information and to sign up for updates on the meet, please email Lauren.
“In this masterpiece of nature writing, 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.
Shepherd 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 The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.”
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