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Tag: The Living Mountain

Charlotte Peacock

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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Open Country: Nan Shepherd on the tramp

Posted on: December 27, 2017 Last updated on: September 20, 2018 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

                            Tomorrow at 3pm on BBC Radio 4’s Open Country, Helen Mark visits the Cairngorms in Scotland to find out why this landscape was an inspiration and…

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On the radio: Nan Shepherd

Posted on: December 13, 2017 Last updated on: September 20, 2018 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

Woman’s Hour Thursday 14 December Poet and writer Nan Shepherd: In the 1930’s Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best known poets and writers, but her masterpiece The Living Mountain languished unpublished in a drawer and she died before it…

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Behind the hill is sorcery: belated insight into Nan Shepherd

Posted on: October 30, 2017 Last updated on: September 20, 2018 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

  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…

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Hark, The Herald

Posted on: October 10, 2017 Last updated on: October 10, 2017 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

Arts news: Nan Shepherd biography   Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock, the first biography of the writer, is to be published on October 26. In the 1930s Nan Shepherd was one of Scotland’s best-known…

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An image in a ball of glass

Posted on: October 4, 2017 Last updated on: October 4, 2017 Written by: Charlotte Peacock Comments: 0

Review by Ian MacLeod for Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock Robert Burns is on our Sterling £10 note, Jane Austen on the old lady of Threadneedle Street’s. When Anna ‘Nan’…

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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...
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A paperback life of Nan Shepherd

Review by Ian MacLeod for Waterstones, Sauchiehall Street, Glasgow Into the Mountain: A Life of Nan Shepherd by Charlotte Peacock Robert Burns is on our Sterling £10 note, Jane Austen on the old lady of Threadneedle Street’s. When Anna ‘Nan’…
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