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Live mountain
Live mountain
(English) Nan Shepherd Guan Xiaochen 译
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A woman needs not just a room, but a whole wild mountain to roam.
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The first non-royal woman to appear on a Bank of Scotland banknote
A miracle book that was hidden for thirty years yet triumphed over time
—If I could, I too would want to coexist with mountains forever, my soul eternally free and immortal
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☁ The earliest feminist: lifelong celibacy, living in seclusion, spending her life with the mountains, writing only for herself
☁ A miracle book that triumphed over time: hidden in a drawer for thirty years, yet ranked alongside "Walden" and "The Peregrine"
☁ Subverting the tradition of male mountaineering literature: women need a room, but even more, a wild mountain to roam
☁ A pioneering sensory experiment: breaking taboos, seeing the world with the body, rediscovering the innocence we’ve long lost
☁ Long recommendations from Robert Macfarlane and Jeanette Winterson, "the finest work on the British landscape" (The Guardian)
☁ Jointly recommended by Dong Lai, Jidi, Ouyang Ting, Zhou Yijun, and Zhu Yujie: The spirit of nature seems to hold Shepard's pen
☁ Designed by a cutting-edge designer, small format, with a complementary scrapbook of Nan Shepard's life
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"I am like a dog, scent excites me; after rain, I enjoy the joy of water slowly flowing over my palms; sometimes I float to the surface from a dream-sea at dawn, seeing a roe deer..."
Nan Shepard was a lifelong visitor to the mountains: she ate wild fruits, drank river water, swam in lakes, and slept on hillsides; waking up in the morning, a robin's claws rested on her bare arm; sometimes, it was the breath of a wild deer grazing that woke her.
Calm and precise, she shared a lifetime's observations of highlands, glens, mountains, water, frost, air and light, plants, birds, insects, and humans; yet she was also extremely personal and self-contained, describing how she slept, watched, listened, touched, and felt in the mountains, and even how she existed.
This is a classic ode to the mountains, a collection of local stories capturing flowing water, snowflakes, and deer calls, and even more, a journey into existence, a decades-long sensory experiment, showing us how many subtle connections can be formed between a person and the external world: the deeper one understands the life of the mountains, the deeper one understands oneself.
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As "Ulysses" is to Dublin, and "Mrs. Dalloway" to London, "The Living Mountain" gazes at the details of the landscape, and is also full of passionate philosophical thought. —Robert Macfarlane
The reason "The Living Mountain" is "good" is that in a specific and small subject, it finds or extracts a story about how we understand the world. —Jeanette Winterson
This Zen-like "mountain pilgrimage" is enjoyable, it is an inspiring blend of philosophy and documentary, reflecting the diverse forms and forces of life everywhere in the landscapes she loved. —Ali Smith
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We often look up at mountains, setting out often to climb, but "The Living Mountain" reminds us that the real scenery is within nature itself. Shepard found the way the earth sees itself, and through "The Living Mountain," we too find a way to open ourselves, to expand ourselves. Re-acquaint yourself, go into the mountain's interior, and also go into the depths of your own heart. —Zhou Yijun (Writer, documentary filmmaker)
I believe readers of "The Living Mountain" will all wish to possess the kind of keen and rich sensibility that Nan Shepard had, as she said, "I have always been the tool by which I understand the things around me." She expresses her observations, perceptions, and internalized philosophies of the mountains so precisely, profoundly, and uniquely. Reading her words is also experiencing her gaze, the enlightenment gained from the mountains, condensed and restrained, like a long, slow lens, moving from the distant contours and folds of the mountains, gradually delving into the texture of the rock layers, and even into her own heart. Each approach to the mountain is also a process of affirming one's own existence. —Ouyang Ting (Nature writer)
A book that only someone who truly loves nature could write, struck by the eternity of the wilderness, experiencing ecstatic transcendence, truly understanding solitude, and never being healed. The mutual penetration between space and mind, until the nature of both is changed. —Dong Lai (Writer)
A small book, but it made my heart surge. I read it in the bath, in bed, curled up on the sofa. I couldn't bear to put this book down, like someone standing in a breathtaking landscape, lingering for a long time, reluctant to leave. —Jidi (Picture book artist)
The spirit of nature seems to hold Shepard's pen, she can describe everything: scenery, weather, people, wild animals and plants. She has the sharp eyes of an eagle, observing every minute detail, and like a dragonfly, possesses compound eyes, capturing details from different dimensions simultaneously. A landscape book more captivating than any nature documentary, "The Living Mountain" has set a new standard. —Zhu Yujie (Writer, curator)
A woman needs not just a room, but a whole wild mountain to roam.
·
The first non-royal woman to appear on a Bank of Scotland banknote
A miracle book that was hidden for thirty years yet triumphed over time
—If I could, I too would want to coexist with mountains forever, my soul eternally free and immortal
·
☁ The earliest feminist: lifelong celibacy, living in seclusion, spending her life with the mountains, writing only for herself
☁ A miracle book that triumphed over time: hidden in a drawer for thirty years, yet ranked alongside "Walden" and "The Peregrine"
☁ Subverting the tradition of male mountaineering literature: women need a room, but even more, a wild mountain to roam
☁ A pioneering sensory experiment: breaking taboos, seeing the world with the body, rediscovering the innocence we’ve long lost
☁ Long recommendations from Robert Macfarlane and Jeanette Winterson, "the finest work on the British landscape" (The Guardian)
☁ Jointly recommended by Dong Lai, Jidi, Ouyang Ting, Zhou Yijun, and Zhu Yujie: The spirit of nature seems to hold Shepard's pen
☁ Designed by a cutting-edge designer, small format, with a complementary scrapbook of Nan Shepard's life
·
"I am like a dog, scent excites me; after rain, I enjoy the joy of water slowly flowing over my palms; sometimes I float to the surface from a dream-sea at dawn, seeing a roe deer..."
Nan Shepard was a lifelong visitor to the mountains: she ate wild fruits, drank river water, swam in lakes, and slept on hillsides; waking up in the morning, a robin's claws rested on her bare arm; sometimes, it was the breath of a wild deer grazing that woke her.
Calm and precise, she shared a lifetime's observations of highlands, glens, mountains, water, frost, air and light, plants, birds, insects, and humans; yet she was also extremely personal and self-contained, describing how she slept, watched, listened, touched, and felt in the mountains, and even how she existed.
This is a classic ode to the mountains, a collection of local stories capturing flowing water, snowflakes, and deer calls, and even more, a journey into existence, a decades-long sensory experiment, showing us how many subtle connections can be formed between a person and the external world: the deeper one understands the life of the mountains, the deeper one understands oneself.
·
As "Ulysses" is to Dublin, and "Mrs. Dalloway" to London, "The Living Mountain" gazes at the details of the landscape, and is also full of passionate philosophical thought. —Robert Macfarlane
The reason "The Living Mountain" is "good" is that in a specific and small subject, it finds or extracts a story about how we understand the world. —Jeanette Winterson
This Zen-like "mountain pilgrimage" is enjoyable, it is an inspiring blend of philosophy and documentary, reflecting the diverse forms and forces of life everywhere in the landscapes she loved. —Ali Smith
·
We often look up at mountains, setting out often to climb, but "The Living Mountain" reminds us that the real scenery is within nature itself. Shepard found the way the earth sees itself, and through "The Living Mountain," we too find a way to open ourselves, to expand ourselves. Re-acquaint yourself, go into the mountain's interior, and also go into the depths of your own heart. —Zhou Yijun (Writer, documentary filmmaker)
I believe readers of "The Living Mountain" will all wish to possess the kind of keen and rich sensibility that Nan Shepard had, as she said, "I have always been the tool by which I understand the things around me." She expresses her observations, perceptions, and internalized philosophies of the mountains so precisely, profoundly, and uniquely. Reading her words is also experiencing her gaze, the enlightenment gained from the mountains, condensed and restrained, like a long, slow lens, moving from the distant contours and folds of the mountains, gradually delving into the texture of the rock layers, and even into her own heart. Each approach to the mountain is also a process of affirming one's own existence. —Ouyang Ting (Nature writer)
A book that only someone who truly loves nature could write, struck by the eternity of the wilderness, experiencing ecstatic transcendence, truly understanding solitude, and never being healed. The mutual penetration between space and mind, until the nature of both is changed. —Dong Lai (Writer)
A small book, but it made my heart surge. I read it in the bath, in bed, curled up on the sofa. I couldn't bear to put this book down, like someone standing in a breathtaking landscape, lingering for a long time, reluctant to leave. —Jidi (Picture book artist)
The spirit of nature seems to hold Shepard's pen, she can describe everything: scenery, weather, people, wild animals and plants. She has the sharp eyes of an eagle, observing every minute detail, and like a dragonfly, possesses compound eyes, capturing details from different dimensions simultaneously. A landscape book more captivating than any nature documentary, "The Living Mountain" has set a new standard. —Zhu Yujie (Writer, curator)
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出版社/Publisher：文汇出版社
出品方/Imprint:New Classic Media
页数/Page: 208