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Robert Macfarlane on the Beauty and Urgency of Nan Shepherd’s
The Living Mountain
In Praise of the Scottish Author’s Poetic, Universalist Parochialism
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Robert Macfarlane
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How Jonathan Raban's
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By
Robert Macfarlane
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Robert Macfarlane
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By
Robert Macfarlane
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Robert Macfarlane
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