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Magical Tome
- First published
- 1977
- Publisher
- Canongate Books
- Pages
- 160 pages
- ISBN
- 9781786897350
The living mountain
The outer archives are busy
About this book
The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain: said a newspaper of this when it was first published. The manuscript was completed in 1944, Nan Shepherd showed it to a friend, who thought it would be tough to find a publisher. Shepherd recevied one rejection and then left the MS in a drawer. In 1977, Aberdeen University Press printed a small edition. Later, Robert Macfarlane was introduced to it and wrote: "I read it, and was changed" in his first-rate introduction. You will be, too.
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