How long does it take to read The Living Mountain?
Nan Shepherd
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd takes about 2 hours 5 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 2 hours 5 minutes
An evening's read
First published 1977. 114 pages, about 31,350 words.
5 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 3 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 2 hours 5 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 1 hour 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 5 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the 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.
Subjects: Great britain, history, Natural history, Mountains, Scottish authors
