I believe this book is a gift. Our undoing is also our becoming.Over 60 years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Loved the description of the seasonal landscape.Struggled at the start but once I got into it I really enjoyed it. In this adaptation of her iconic memoir, Didion transforms the story of the shattering loss of her husband and their daughter into a one-woman play performed by Tony Award winner Vanessa Redgrave, who originated the role on Broadway in 2007.In this remarkable blend of memoir, cultural history, and travelogue, poet and author Kathleen Jamie touches points on a timeline spanning millennia, and considers what surfaces and what reconnects us to our past. Musical, muscular and surefootedly deft, it carried me high and rocking from start to finish: I just tried to stay on and out of its way. Loved the description of the seasonal landscape.Struggled at the start but once I got into it I really enjoyed it. 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. Hi all, I'm looking for the audiobook version of "The Living Mountain" by Nan Shepherd. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing,Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of.The experience of being in nature alone is here set within the context of a series of walks that Neil Ansell takes into the most remote parts of Britain, the rough bounds in the Scottish Highlands. I walk, stiff-legged, into the campsite office, and a plump, middle-aged woman looks up from her desk and can see the old timer is in trouble. In this first general history of walking, Rebecca Solnit draws together many histories to create a range of possibilities for this most basic act. Play Sample / Preview. £7.99/month after 30 days. The superb Robert MacFarlane (from whom I first learned of the book) adds context to the work, and Jeanette Winterson contributes a personal perspective.Was not expecting to be ‘pulled into’ this writing. Enjoy.A wonderful listen, which is more like beautiful poetry. His story begins three centuries ago, when mountains were feared as the forbidding abodes of dragons and other mysterious beasts.The nation's greatest voice, David Attenborough, reads J. Martin and I descend from hours of walking to the small town of Middleton-in-Teesdale. I'm not a mountain climbers but I can now understand it's meditative value. Your account is still active and your Suprbay username and password will work. For quick and no fuss torrents Audiobook Bay Hands down. (Only a Scot could tackle all the Gaelic names so nicely!) Enjoy.A wonderful listen, which is more like beautiful poetry. (,"Most works of mountain literature are written by men, and most of them focus on the goal of the summit. Because the style is poetic and meditative, however, it should probably be read rather than heard. Here he finds the perfect mountain stream and pond location to build a home in an old dead tree. Now he can begin his long-awaited algae experiments, as well as prove his ability as a solitary, young Thoreau living off the land and communing fully with nature. I believe this book is a gift. If you had an account on forum.suprbay.org with at least one post, you do not need to re-register. Arguing that walking as history means walking for pleasure and for political, aesthetic, and social meaning, Solnit homes in on the walkers whose everyday and extreme acts have shaped our culture.Tristan Gooley shows how it is possible to achieve a level of outdoors awareness that will enable you to sense direction from stars and plants, forecast weather from woodland sounds and predict the next action of an animal from its body language - instantly.

Tilda Swinton is wonderful.A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland,©2019 Nan Shepherd (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd. It took a little while to get onto the rhythm of the book, as it takes one time to get into the rhythm of a good trek into the mountains, but worth persisting, the rewards will be many. Buy The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane from Waterstones today! If you had an account on forum.suprbay.org with at least one post, you do not need to re-register. No biggie. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore. The result is an immersive, enthralling exploration of the ghosts and voices that haunt old paths, of the stories our tracks keep and tell, and of pilgrimage and ritual. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce.In this masterpiece of nature writing, beautifully narrated by Oscar-winning actress Tilda Swinton, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland.


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