Share for friends:

Read Mountains Of The Mind (2003)

Mountains of the Mind (2003)

Online Book

Rating
4.7 of 5 Votes: 4
Your rating
Language
English
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Mountains Of The Mind (2003) - Plot & Excerpts

THOMAS BURNET, 1684 It was a winter afternoon and I had walked up into a high valley in the Canadian Rockies, following a river whose banks were formed of round boulders. The water of the lake at the head of the valley, on whose shoreline I stood, was frozen – the red reed beds at its periphery locked into place by the ice. A big storm was on its way, according to the radio weather report I had listened to back at the road. Away to the east, I could see thunderheads congregating, and the valley was flooded with storm-light. It was a fixing light, which cast the scene – stilled it, held it. But it was also a light which made the most ordinary objects seem marvellous: the individual rocks around the shore, the slopes of snow lying between the firs, the pine-needles, like pairs of dividers, which had blown on to the lake ice.
A strong wind was blowing, and increasing in strength by the minute as the storm neared, herding the turbulent air before it. I had walked up here – a good three hours’ graft – because I wanted to catch the wildlife, but there was nothing to be seen.

What do You think about Mountains Of The Mind (2003)?

Write Review

(Review will shown on site after approval)

Read books by author Robert Macfarlane

Read books in category Memoir & Autobiography