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Nan Shepherd is best known for The Living Mountain, her uniquely personal book about The Cairngorms which is rightly regarded as a classic piece of nature writing. This 1928 novel was her first published work.
At its core is a rites of passage novel, told largely in Aberdeenshire dialect - this does make it quite difficult for a non-Scot to follow at times though many of the dialect words are explained in a glossary, in fact just reading the glossary shows how rich the dialect is.
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At its core is a rites of passage novel, told largely in Aberdeenshire dialect - this does make it quite difficult for a non-Scot to follow at times though many of the dialect words are explained in a glossary, in fact just reading the glossary shows how rich the dialect is.
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