Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain

A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland.
gebunden , 176 Seiten
ISBN 1786897350
EAN 9781786897350
Veröffentlicht August 2019
Verlag/Hersteller Canongate Books
19,00 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

A collectible gift edition of the influential work of Scottish nature writing. Introduction from Robert Macfarlane and afterword from Jeanette Winterson.

Portrait

Anna (Nan) Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. Closely attached to Aberdeen and her native Deeside, she graduated from her home university in 1915 and for the next forty-one years worked as a lecturer in English. An enthusiastic gardener and hill-walker, she made many visits to the Cairngorms with students and friends. She also travelled further afield - to Norway, France, Italy, Greece and South Africa - but always returned to the house where she was raised and where she lived almost all of her adult life, in the village of West Cults, three miles from Aberdeen on North Deeside. To honour her legacy, in 2016, Nan Shepherd's face was added to the Royal Bank of Scotland five-pound note.