The Living Mountain

这是一部关于自然界力量的国际畅销经典之作——“部分是回忆录，部分是田野笔记，部分是对自然及其关系的抒情冥想，让人想起雷切尔·卡森、亨利·贝斯顿和约翰·缪尔”（玛丽亚·波波娃，《纽约时报》）。
这部自然写作杰作由南·谢泼德撰写，现在由珍妮·奥德尔作序，描述了她前往苏格兰凯恩戈姆山“高处和圣地”的旅程。在那里，她遇到了一个充满壮观悬崖、深沉寂静和清澈得难以想象的湖泊的世界。当她穿过云层、忍受暴风雪、观看鹰群盘旋飞行时，谢泼德开始了解这片非凡景观的隐秘生活——以及她自己。
《活山》是一位女性一生寻找周围野生世界本质的成果。谢泼德的手稿创作于二战期间，在出版之前，手稿被搁置了近四十年，几乎被时间遗忘。此后几十年，各个时代的观众和评论家都将其视为经典，是山脉壮丽和我们与环境和谐共存的永恒见证。
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 of Rachel Carson and Henry Beston and John Muir” (Maria Popova, The New York Times).
Now with a new introduction by Jenny Odell, this masterpiece of nature writing by Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into “the high and holy places” of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world of spectacular cliffs, deep silences, and lakes so clear that they cannot be imagined. As she walks through clouds, endures blizzards, and watches the great spirals of eagles in flight, Shepherd comes to know something about the hidden life of this remarkable landscape—and also herself.
The Living Mountain is the result of one woman’s lifetime spent in search of the essential nature of the wild world around her. Composed during World War II, Shepherd’s manuscript lay untouched for almost four decades, nearly lost to time, before it was finally published. In the decades since, audiences and critics of all generations have embraced it as a classic, an enduring testament to the magnificence of mountains and our communion with the environment.