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Category: Wild Geese

Charlotte Peacock

Nan Shepherd: what shall be your badge?

Posted on: September 20, 2018 Last updated on: September 29, 2018 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

‘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…

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A paperback life of Nan Shepherd

Posted on: September 11, 2018 Last updated on: September 29, 2018 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

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…

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Wild Geese, Nan Shepherd

Posted on: August 6, 2018 Last updated on: September 29, 2018 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

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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Nan Shepherd on the house ‘up by’

Posted on: September 29, 2017 Last updated on: November 4, 2018 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

‘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…

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Wild Geese: Nan Shepherd's writing

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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.
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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?
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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'.
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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...
Continue reading “Nan Shepherd on the house ‘up by’”…

A paperback life of Nan Shepherd

‘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…
Continue reading “Nan Shepherd on the house ‘up by’”…

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