Wild Geese
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’
In 1962, Nan Shepherd wrote a piece on the Downies of Braemar for The Deeside Field (now reprinted in Wild Geese). In it, she says: ‘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 …
