I’m sorry but I can’t think of any book that has such descriptions at incredible length or recurring throughout in text (and doubt that any book carrying description to those lengths would be much good) and who’d read a book for the sake of a few paragraphs of description?
For me at least it’s visual not textual work that does what you ask. For mountains, look at Caspar David Friedrich; for snow, check out *Antarctica* by Eliot Porter. For forests + mountains + lakes + valleys Ansel Adams might immerse you; I’m not really taken with his work but he’s very highly regarded & there’s a good reason for that.
[Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage to the Many Sources of the Ganga](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26192110-sacred-waters) by Stephen Alter — walking along pilgrimage routes through the Himalayas. Loved reading this. Really gave a solid picture of the places he went through.
Both of these are non-fiction memoirs. I believe the first, at least, is available in audiobook, too.
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Lord of the Rings! The landscape is a huge part of the story. Some hate LoTR because the attention to detail makes the pace slower, but I love the loving, fascinating descriptions of the world around the characters.
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The Offing by Benjamin Myers has some of the best nature writing I have seen but it is rural England so smaller scale.
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Go As A River by Shelley Read
I’m sorry but I can’t think of any book that has such descriptions at incredible length or recurring throughout in text (and doubt that any book carrying description to those lengths would be much good) and who’d read a book for the sake of a few paragraphs of description?
For me at least it’s visual not textual work that does what you ask. For mountains, look at Caspar David Friedrich; for snow, check out *Antarctica* by Eliot Porter. For forests + mountains + lakes + valleys Ansel Adams might immerse you; I’m not really taken with his work but he’s very highly regarded & there’s a good reason for that.
[The Living Mountain](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25773742-the-living-mountain) by NanShepherd — about the Cairngorms (Scotland) by someone who spent years living and hiking through them in all seasons.
[Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage to the Many Sources of the Ganga](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/26192110-sacred-waters) by Stephen Alter — walking along pilgrimage routes through the Himalayas. Loved reading this. Really gave a solid picture of the places he went through.
Both of these are non-fiction memoirs. I believe the first, at least, is available in audiobook, too.
Lord of the Rings! The landscape is a huge part of the story. Some hate LoTR because the attention to detail makes the pace slower, but I love the loving, fascinating descriptions of the world around the characters.
The Offing by Benjamin Myers has some of the best nature writing I have seen but it is rural England so smaller scale.
Death comes for the archbishop by Wila Cather