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Grampian Quartet by Nan Shepherd; Roderick Watson (Introduction by, Editor)
Category: Fiction | Series: Canongate Classics Ser.
The Quarry Wood, although published well before Sunset Song, inhabits a similar world; the progress of its heroine could almost be the alternative story of a Chris Guthrie who did go to university. Compassionate and humorous, the grace and style of Shepherd's prose is heightened by a superb ear for the ...Show more
IN THE CAIRNGORMS by SHEPHERD NAN
Category: Poetry
First published in 1934, In The Cairngorms is Nan Shepherd's only book of poems. It took her twenty-five years to write these forty-six poems. Each is possessed of a fierce intensity; together, they offer glimpses into what she once called the burning heart of life'. Shepherd's lifelong acquaintance wit ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: The Canons
The Living Mountain is a lyrical testament in praise of the Cairngorms. It is a work deeply rooted in Nan Shepherd's knowledge of the natural world, and a poetic and philosophical meditation on our longing for high and holy places. Drawing on different perspectives of the mountain environment, Shepherd ...Show more
The Living Mountain: A Celebration of the Cairngorm Mountains of Scotland by Nan Shepherd
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Canons Ser.
Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable lands ...Show more
The Quarry Wood by Nan Shepherd
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
When Martha accepts a place at university, her decision is met with a mixture of hostility and pride by her uncomprehending family. This is the story of a young woman's journey to maturity and independence, struggling to cope with the intellectual and emotional challenges that surround her, at a time wh ...Show more
The Weatherhouse by Nan Shepherd
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons
The women of the tiny town of Fetter-Rothnie have grown used to a life without men, and none more so than the tangle of mothers and daughters, spinsters and widows living at the Weatherhouse. Returned from war with shellshock, Garry Forbes is drawn into their circle as he struggles to build a new unders ...Show more
Wild Geese - A Collection of Nan Shepherd's Writing by Nan Shepherd; Charlotte Peacock (Editor)
Category: Journals
Wild Geese contains a previously unpublished short story "Descent from the Cross", a dozen also previously unpublished, but most accomplished, new poems, as well as fascinating nature writing which can be seen to be in the same vein as The Living Mountain, her zen-inspired work on the Cairngorm mountain ...Show more
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