The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd Sarah Clarkson big questions of mortality and

big questions of mortality and meaning in a way that is most unusual

and children's book illustrator Eleanor Taylor

with none of the usual smug banalities of the self-help genre

pretty one

creator of The Nutrition Junky

The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd Sarah Clarkson big questions of mortality and"In a world of self help, this is true inspiration, deeply admirable without the distance of heroism, bracing without stridency and, ultimately, generous. The mountain, Shepherd tells us, is 'a corrective of glib assessment.' So is its book." The New York Times Book Review An internationally bestselling classic on the power of the natural world "part memoir, part field notebook, part lyrical meditation on nature and our relationship with it, evocative