Between the Sunset and the Sea: A View of 16 British Mountains Audiobook (Free)

‘I watched the reflection for a final view, for the present time, from the frozen mountains of Glen Coe. As the street bent and the put together of Buachaille Etive Mor slid into view, I did what I always did, and usually would. I sensed for that flutter of awe which indefinable, unmistakable quickening of the pulse.’

In the late 18th century, mountains shifted from being universally reviled to becoming probably the most inspiring things on the planet. Simply put, the monsters became muses – and a whole artistic motion about Between the Sunset and the Sea: A Look at of 16 United kingdom Mountains was born. This movement became a romance, the love affair became an obsession, and gradually but definitely, obsession became way of living as mountains became stitched into the fabric from the British cultural tapestry.

In his compelling new book, Simon Ingram explores how mountains became such a preoccupation for the present day western imagination, weaving his own adventures into a powerful narrative which gives a kind of experiential hit list for those who don’t have enough time nor the will to climb a thousand mountains.

For some of these mountains, the most beautiful thing about them may be the journey they’ve taken to get here. Others, the tales of science, endeavour and art that have performed out on their slopes. The mythology they’re drenched in. The history they’ve seen. The genius they’ve motivated. The danger that draws visitors to them. The life that clusters around them, individual and otherwise. The extreme weather conditions they conjure. The adventure they fuel. Just how that some raise the hairs on the trunk of your neck, and cause powerful, strange feelings. And moreover, what they’re like to end up being amidst, under, on – precisely what that indefinable quality is that the British mountains wield which takes ownership of you therefore powerfully, rather than goes away.

Ingram takes us high into the rafters of Britain’s most forbidding, unflinching and unchanging wild places through all the seasons of the year – in the initial blush of spring towards the deepest, darkest bite of the mountain winter. From Beinn Dearg to Ben Nevis, he requires us on a journey spanning sixteen of Britain’s most evocative mountainous scenery, and what they mean to us today.