‘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
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. . This post may contain affiliate links. This means I may…
Wild Geese, Nan Shepherd
Nan Shepherd is most famous for The Living Mountain. Published here together for the first time is a collection of her other writing.
Nan Shepherd on the house ‘up by’
‘We never climbed Morrone but we stopped to look at its ancient knobble of glass in one of the windows, to speak to the old people and perhaps be allowed to peep in at the door of the old house…