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Talking Nan Shepherd: A blether about book festivals

Nan Shepherd is under discussion at Book Festivals in Hexham and Aberdeen in 2018

Where is Nan Shepherd’s shanty on the edge of the Cairngorms?

Nan Shepherd escaped as often as she could to her 'shanty' in the Cairngorms. But where was it?

Nan Shepherd and Jessie Kesson: an uncommon friendship

Nan Shepherd and Jessie Kesson. Theirs was an unlikely friendship. It began by chance and lasted over forty years. It was Shepherd, Kesson credited with kickstarting her writing career. Now that Shepherd's works are once again in print, it's timely that Kesson's have been republished. Read Kesson's story of when she met the 'Lady in the Train'.

Nan Shepherd: what shall be your badge?

'What shall be your badge in the ever-living Wood of Caledon?' asks Cuthbert Graham in the poem he wrote Nan Shepherd for her 86th birthday. The Scots Pine? Symbol of the untameable mountain? But there is more to Nan Shepherd than her hill book...

Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd now in paperback

The Shepherd shelf is filling up. Just as the Wild Geese landed, the paperback edition of Into the Mountain appeared. Galileo Publishing has done a beautiful job of both. Read reviews. . This post may contain affiliate links. This means…

Wild Geese: A Collection of Nan Shepherd’s Writing

Nan Shepherd is most famous for The Living Mountain. Published here together for the first time is a collection of her other writing.

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