Nan Shepherd
Books by Nan Shepherd
“Shepherd is interesting because her trilogy—The Quarry Wood, The Weatherhouse, A Pass in the Grampians—came out between 1928 and 1933. Lewis Grassic Gibbon’s Scots Quair came out slightly after that. So she wrote her trilogy before his, but his is the one that has had all the fame and attention. I would like to see Nan Shepherd’s novels treated with the same kind of reverence.” Read more...
Landmarks of Scottish Literature
James Robertson, Novelist
The Living Mountain
by Nan Shepherd
A classic work of nature writing, written during the Second World War but left unpublished for three decades, Nan Shepherd's The Living Mountain is a meditation upon the nature of mountains – in particular, the Cairngorms of the Highlands of Scotland – and a cult book among the hillwalking community.
Interviews where books by Nan Shepherd were recommended
The Best Hiking Memoirs, recommended by Gail Simmons
Accounts of journeys on foot capture the imagination; partly this is a function of the satisfaction of following a linear journey from start to finish, and partly it is a quality inherent to walking itself—a freeing of the mind. Gail Simmons, who follows an old English pilgrimage route in her book Between the Chalk and the Sea, selects five hiking memoirs that celebrate the liberation that comes from putting one foot after another.
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The Living Mountain
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The Water Cure
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The Dark Stuff: Stories from the Peatlands
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Inheritors of the Earth: How Nature is Thriving in an Age of Extinction
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Kings of the Yukon: An Alaskan River Journey
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Crudo: A Novel
by Olivia Laing
Editors’ Picks: Highlights From a Year in Reading, recommended by Cal Flyn
Editors’ Picks: Highlights From a Year in Reading, recommended by Cal Flyn
Author, journalist and Five Books deputy editor Cal Flyn looks back on her favourite books read this year.
The best books on Wild Places, recommended by Robert Macfarlane
Robert Macfarlane, author of an acclaimed trilogy of books about landscape and human thought tells us about the intrepid, sometimes misanthropic writers who inspired his own investigation of wilderness. He chooses some of his favourite books of nature-writing.
Landmarks of Scottish Literature, recommended by James Robertson
Scottish culture is best understood as related to, but distinct from, that of Britain or England, says the acclaimed novelist James Robertson. Here, he selects five landmark works of Scottish literature, from Sir Walter Scott’s sweeping, panoramic social novels of the 18th century, through Robert Louis Stevenson’s Jekyll and Hyde, to Nan Shepherd’s beloved nature writing.
