Nan Shepherd has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 15 ratings. The most-rated is The Living Mountain.
The Living Mountain
Summary
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. 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 30 years before it was finally published.
©2019 Nan Shepherd (P)2019 Canongate Books Ltd
In the Cairngorms
Summary
First published in 1934, In the Cairngorms was Nan Shepherd's (1893-1981) only book of poems. Although she wrote three acclaimed novels and a remarkable prose meditation on the Cairngorms entitled The Living Mountain, Shepherd considered her poetry to have been her finest work. In this beautiful audio version, the poems are read by a leading Scottish actress, Gerda Stevenson. The work was recorded at Canongate Studios in Leith, Edinburgh.
©2014 The Estate of Nan Shepherd (P)2019 Galileo Publishers