Join our listening book club to explore our relationships with our local landscapes through a discussion of The Living Mountain with artist Rob St John. Your voices and perspectives will help shape Rob’s Are You Lost? Installation artwork, which explores the relationships between Bowland and the communities on its fringes.
You can borrow a free copy of the book from the ‘Are You Lost’ drop in session on Saturday 17th May at the Burnley Mechanics or, from the Burnley Mechanics during regular box office opening hours.
Help us organise the teas & coffees, book your free place at the book club here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/burnley-words/t-ojxnaqq
About The Book
‘The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain’ Guardian
Introduction by Robert Macfarlane. Afterword by Jeanette Winterson
In this masterpiece of nature writing, 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 thirty years before it was finally published.
