Month: July 2019

Reports

Artmonte Carlo

Agnieszka Gratza

As we approached the centre of Monaco, the driver who picked me up at the airport pointed out one of the largest yachts in the world, dwarfing all its companions lining the main harbour. We had plenty of time to admire it since the yearly roadworks ahead of the Grand Prix de Monaco – the legendary Formula One motor race that takes over the city-state each May – meant that it took us a good 40 minutes to drive across what is apparently the second smallest country in the world after the Vatican. Continue reading Artmonte Carlo

Reviews

Into The Mountain

Agnieszka Gratza

The ‘tale of my traffic with a mountain’ is how Nan Shepherd describes her slender volume in the foreword to The Living Mountain, 1977. Curiously for a book that repeatedly asserts the essential unity of its subject – the Cairngorms in Shepherd’s native Aberdeenshire – The Living Mountain reads like an anatomy of a mountain with short, overlapping chapters addressing in turn its geological features, the elements, all the living things and creatures, including man, who form part of it and shape it. Continue reading Into The Mountain