In the Cairngorms - Tapa dura

First published in 1934, and reissued in 2013, In The Cairngorms is Nan Shepherd's only book of poems, although she wrote three acclaimed novels, and a remarkable prose meditation on the Cairngorms: The Living Mountain.

Shepherd considered her poetry to have been her finest work. It took her twenty-five years to write these forty-six poems. Each is possessed of a fierce intensity; together, they offer glimpses into what she once called 'the burning heart of life'. Shepherd's lifelong acquaintance with the Scottish mountains was a spiritual as well as a geographical exploration: in the Cairngorms she discovered both elemental beauty and profound metaphysical mystery. Her huge gifts as a poet were to convey these discoveries in language that remains both strange and thrilling to the modern reader. This new edition adds 12 poems which were discovered during research for the Shepherd biography 'Into the Mountain', all of which are very much of the same quality as the works in the original volume. The new hardback edition is printed in 2 colours on a premium paper and will be a must for every Nan Shepherd fan.