Hidden Fires - A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd

Glover, Merryn
Hidden Fires - A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd

Hidden Fires - A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd

Glover, Merryn

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Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender.

In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as Shepherd's seminal work. This is a journey separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own.

An Australian who grew up in the Himalayas, her early experiences of the Scottish hills and weather left her cold. But gradually acclimatising and with an approach like Shepherd's, that is more mountain wandering than mountaineering, she discovers the spark that sets the hills and herself on fire. Through Glover's deepening encounter, the wild majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape, place and identity.

'Merryn Glover's The Hidden Fires is not just brave, it is remarkable' - Sir John Lister-Kaye

'A book about homecoming and homemaking, of noticing and belonging. It is a joyous celebration of the process of finding yourself' - Kerri Andrews, author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

Author:   Glover, Merryn
Publisher:   Birlinn General
ISBN:  

9781846975752


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 July 2023
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.

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Elemental, fierce and full of wonder, the Cairngorm mountains are the high and rocky heart of Scotland. To know them would take forever, to love them demands a kind of courageous surrender.

In The Hidden Fires, Merryn Glover undertakes that challenge with Nan Shepherd as companion and guiding light. Following in the footsteps and contours of The Living Mountain, she explores the same landscapes and themes as Shepherd's seminal work. This is a journey separated by time but unified by space and purpose, a conversation between two women across nearly a century that explores how entering the life of a mountain can illuminate our own.

An Australian who grew up in the Himalayas, her early experiences of the Scottish hills and weather left her cold. But gradually acclimatising and with an approach like Shepherd's, that is more mountain wandering than mountaineering, she discovers the spark that sets the hills and herself on fire. Through Glover's deepening encounter, the wild majesty and iridescence of the Cairngorms is revealed in this beautiful evocation of landscape, place and identity.

'Merryn Glover's The Hidden Fires is not just brave, it is remarkable' - Sir John Lister-Kaye

'A book about homecoming and homemaking, of noticing and belonging. It is a joyous celebration of the process of finding yourself' - Kerri Andrews, author of Wanderers: A History of Women Walking

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Author:   Glover, Merryn
Publisher:   Birlinn General
ISBN:  

9781846975752


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   01 July 2023
Bind Format:   Hardback
Availability:  
This item is in stock and will be dispatched immediately.
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