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 night
‘A strong, confident female voice being celebrated, read and enjoyed at events around the country with predominantly female speakers would be a welcome antidote to the heavily masculine Burns Night with its conspicuous array of male worthies’. Scottish identity can no longer be encompassed in one night nor expressed by one man.
Quiet influence: Nan Shepherd’s lonely uphill struggle
The great celebrator of the Cairngorms has long been overlooked. Charlotte Peacock finally redresses the balance. Fiona Sampson The Spectator View of the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland (image: iStock) The Spectator, 6 January 2018, 9:00 AM ‘It’s a grand thing to get leave to live’, perhaps the most famous line Nan Shepherd wrote, is carved …
Hole Ousia
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Behind the hill is sorcery: belated insight into Nan Shepherd
Review: Into The Mountain: A Life Of Nan Shepherd, by Charlotte Peacock STUART KELLY Published: 12:19 Thursday 26 October 2017 The Scotsman The image of Nan Shepherd which now graces a £5 bank note is a curious one. She looks as if she is in fancy-dress as a Native American, or a flapper more concerned …
Who is Nan Shepherd?
Review by Ian MacLeod for Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock Who is Nan Shepherd? Robert Burns is on our Sterling £10 note, Jane Austen on the old lady of Threadneedle Street’s. When Anna ‘Nan’ Shepherd was unveiled as the face of the new blue five in …
‘More than a face on a five pound note…’
Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd in St Andrews Thursday 9th November Described by Robert MacFarlane as “rich, wise, subtle, and valuable”, Into the Mountain is the first biography of Nan Shepherd. Nan’s reputation as a dazzling and first-rate Scottish writer has been growing over recent years and, with the …
