Leicester Humanists Book Club: The Living Mountain – Nan Shepherd

This month we are reading The Living Mountain, by Nan Shepherd.

Nan Shepherd was an English teacher and keen hill walker who spent a lifetime exploring the Cairngorm Mountains around her home. She wrote The Living Mountain in the 1940s, but it wasn’t published until 1977, four years before her death. It has since come to be regarded as a classic of nature writing, and by 2016 she had become so acclaimed in Scotland that she appears on the Scottish £5 note.

What did you think of the book? How has this differed from, or perhaps influenced, other nature writing you've read? What do you think of the poetic and philosophical nature of her writing?

Join like-minded people for a friendly discussion about the book over a coffee or beer!