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The legendary writer whose portrait was stamped with the pound sterling, a literary classic that has been gathering dust for more than thirty years, is introduced in Chinese for the first time: a journey to existence, a collection of local stories that capture flowing water, snowflakes, and the roar of deer. "The smell excites me; the smell of moss on the earth excites me..." Nan Shepherd is a lifelong visitor to the mountains: she eats wild fruits, drinks river water, swims in lakes, and sleeps on the mountainside; when she wakes up in the morning, the paws of a robin rest on her bare arm; sometimes it is the breath of wild deer grazing that wakes her up. This is a classic ode to the mountains. It is also a decades-long sensory experiment exploring the natural world, showing us how many subtle connections can be made between a person and the external world. Before its publication in 1977, the manuscript of this book was kept at the bottom of a box by the author for more than thirty years.