“The more time you spend here in the Highlands, the more you recognise and realise and come to feel yourself part of the different layers of the land [… people] see it as wild and untameable, when in actual fact it is very much a human landscape”

—Annie Worsley recommends her best five books on the Scottish Highlands

https://fivebooks.com/best-books/scottish-highlands-annie-worsley/

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The Scottish Highlands

Five of the best books on the Scottish Highlands, as recommended by nature writer and crofter Annie Worsley

Five Books

Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East

Prof Alison Lumsden discusses Nan Shepherd’s novels – THE QUARRY WOOD, THE WEATHERHOUSE, and A PASS IN THE GRAMPIANS – at our 2017 Schools Conference

9/9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUOwRnwNgtI&list=PLEP9HxY4X7WZvMYoKDAL_wwSMSLzDldSY&index=7

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Nan Shepherd, novelist of the North-East – Alison Lumsden

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“The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be carried along by her flow, to circle in the eddies of her experience”

—Fraser MacDonald on growing up in Nan Shepherd’s village, for the London Review of Books

8/9

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n01/fraser-macdonald/diary

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Fraser MacDonald · Diary: Remembering Nan Shepherd

The novels weren’t the point. The point of Nan Shepherd was herself. My mother described what a thrill it was to be...

London Review of Books

“To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain”

Jo Milne celebrates Nan Shepherd’s achievements as a writer of prose & poetry, an editor, & an inspiring lecturer & traveller who loved literature & landscape

7/9

https://www.abdn.ac.uk/stories/nanshepherd/index.html

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‘To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain’

Exploring the life and work of Nan Shepherd - one of the University's first female authors and much-celebrated writer.

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought,
Ere consummation, ere the final peak,
Come hours like this…

—Nan Shepherd, “Summit of Coire Etchachan”
published in WANDERERS: A History of Women Walking, by Kerri Andrews

6/9

https://www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/summit-corrie-etchachan/

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“At a time of global ecological crisis … her intuitive understanding of the landscape and the rhythms of nature is both a clarion call and a balm for the soul.”

—Scott Lyall on Nan Shepherd’s THE LIVING MOUNTAIN

5/9

https://theconversation.com/the-living-mountain-in-an-age-of-ecological-crisis-nan-shepherds-nature-writing-is-more-relevant-than-ever-119794

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The Living Mountain: in an age of ecological crisis, Nan Shepherd’s nature writing is more relevant than ever

Writing vividly about her beloved Aberdeenshire landscape has reconnected many readers and writers to nature, underscoring the need to protect our fragile environment.

The Conversation

Loch A’an, Loch A’an, hoo deep ye lie!
Tell nane yer depth and nane shall I.
Bricht though yer deepmaist pit may be,
Ye’ll haunt me till the day I dee.
Bricht, an’ bricht, an’ bricht as air,
Ye’ll haunt me noo for evermair.

—Nan Shepherd, “Loch Avon”

📷 : Nick Bramhall, 12 June 2011

4/9

https://www.flickr.com/photos/black_friction/5845274155

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“In Shepherd’s writing… true learning—like hill-walking—is arduous. True knowledge of the mountains is only possible through the suffering of the body brought on through the relentless motion of the feet.”

—Kerri Andrews on Shepherd’s nature poetics, via @literaryhub

3/9

https://lithub.com/on-the-nature-poetics-of-the-great-nan-shepherd-bard-of-the-highlands/

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On the Nature Poetics of the Great Nan Shepherd, Bard of the Highlands

But in the climbing ecstasy of thought, Ere consummation, ere the final peak, Come hours like this. Behind, the long defile, The steep rock-path, alongside which, from under Snow-caves, sharp-corni…

Literary Hub

Currently available on BBC Sounds – Robert Macfarlane celebrates Nan Shepherd’s intrepid literary spirit by embarking on an autumnal poetic pilgrimage right into the heart of her favourite wild places in the Cairngorms

2/9

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03mfndd

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BBC Radio 4 - The Living Mountain

Robert Macfarlane undertakes an immersive poetic pilgrimage to the Cairngorms.

BBC

Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) was born #OTD, 11 Feb. Recently her nature writing & her memoir THE LIVING MOUNTAIN have gained attention—but she was also an important modernist novelist. Charlotte Peacock weighs her contribution to Scotland’s literary renaissance

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1/9

https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2020/12/quiet-pioneer-the-novels-of-nan-shepherd-1893-1981/

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Quiet pioneer: the novels of Nan Shepherd (1893–1981) - The Bottle Imp

Charlotte Peacock on Nan Shepherd's three remarkable novels: The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse and A Pass in the Grampians

The Bottle Imp