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Nan Shepherd’s shanty in the Cairngorms

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

Searching for Nan Shepherd

In the 1970s, Nan Shepherd was introduced to the artist Barbara Balmer. 'Nan Shepherd's Sun Porch' captures the enigmatic writer's essence.

Nan Shepherd’s shanty in 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...

A paperback life of Nan Shepherd

In the Spring of 1930, Nan Shepherd was ill. She was losing weight and feeling low. She escaped to the hills for the Easter break and wrote to her friend, the novelist, Neil Gunn from there in March. The hills…

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