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The book traces Shepherd’s limited but profound output across major novels, landscape verse, and later works, including the long-delayed publication of The Living Mountain. It highlights her conversational openings, precise narrative structure, and character sketches shaped by the Scottish landscape. The introduction emphasizes Shepherd’s distinctive imagery of light, air, and migrating wild geese, showing how brief pieces and earlier texts reveal consistent artistry.","[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nAlso by Nan Shepherd  \nThe Quarry Wood (1928) The Weatherhouse (1930) A Pass in the Grampians (1933) In the Cairngorms (1934) The Living Mountain (1977)  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nGalileo Publishers  \n16 Woodlands Road Great Shelford Cambridge CB22 5LW  \nUK [www.galileopublishing.co.uk](www.galileopublishing.co.uk)[ ](www.galileopublishing.co.uk)[ISBN 978-1-903385-79-1](ISBN 978-1-903385-79-1)[ ](ISBN 978-1-903385-79-1)First published in the UK 2018  \nText © 2018 The Estate of Nan Shepherd Selection and editorial work © 2018 by Charlotte Peacock  \nIntroduction © 2018 Charlotte Peacock All rights reserved.  \nThis book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.  \nPrinted in the EU  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nContents  \nTitle Page  \nIntroduction by Charlotte Peacock  \nPart 1-Descent from the Cross  \n1  \n2  \n3  \n4  \n5  \n6  \n7  \n8  \nPart 2-The Deesside Field Writings  \nThe Colours of Deeside  \nJames McGregor and the Downies of Braemar  \nWild Geese in Glen Callater  \nThe Lupin Island  \nPart 3-Poems  \nAchiltibuie  \nNext Morning  \nOn a still morning  \nRhu Coigach  \nFalketind  \nThe Trees  \nUnderground  \nThe Dryad  \nArthur ’s Seat  \nThe Burning Glass  \nUnion  \nStreet Urchins  \nPart 4-On Poets  \nThe Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid Marion Angus  \nCharles Murray  \nPart 5-Prose Pieces Smuts  \nPixies and Or’nary Peoples  \nOn Noises in the Night Schools and Schoolmistresses The Old Wives  \nThings I Shall Never Know  \nNotes  \n[OceanofPDF.com](OceanofPDF.com)  \nIntroduction  \nby Charlotte Peacock  \n‘I don’t like writing, really. In fact, I very rarely write. No. I never do short stories and articles’, Nan Shepherd confessed in 1933. ‘I only write when I feel that there’s something that simply must be written’.1 Certainly, Shepherd was not one to shout for the sake of making noise: her oeuvre is slender. During her lifetime (1893-1981) she published just five major works.  \nFirst, between 1928 and 1933, came three complex and remarkable novels: The Quarry Wood ; The Weatherhouse; andA Pass in the Grampians. Declared Scotland’s answer to Virginia Woolf,2 Shepherd then showed what she could do with verse, producing In the Cairngorms in 1934. Those hoping for a renaissance in Scottish letters were encouraged. A few more writers of Shepherd’s ‘power and originality’ and Scotland might yet have a literature of its own.3  \nReaders and critics eagerly waiting for what Miss Shepherd did next, however, were disappointed. She appeared to have lost her voice. By the late 1960s her books were out of print and she had slipped into literary obscurity.‘Why, I wonder, did you give up literature so early?’, the poet, Rachel Annand Taylor asked in 1959.4 ‘It just didn’t come to me anymore’, Shepherd answered, when pressed, years later. 5  \nBut Shepherd had not given up. Like the skein she describes in ‘Wild Geese in Glen Callater’, which,‘buffeted and mishandled’by the wind, turned back before disappearing into ‘diaphanous cloud’, her flight was merely deflected.6  \nTowards the end of the Second World War something else simply had tobe written. An enlightened series of meditations on her beloved  \nCairngorms, Shepherd’s last book was ahead of its time. Courteously rejected in 1945, the manuscript lay in waiting for over thirty years, until she decided the world was ready for it. First published in 1977, The Living Mountain is now considered a masterpiece of landscape literature.  \n‘You can never know if your work is positively good until you’ve been dead a century or so’, the historian and writer Agnes Mure Mackenzie told Shepherd after the publication of The Quarry Wood.7 It has taken less than half that time for Shepherd’s literary legacy to be given the r","cbCaiiNFcat1LFVr","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiNFcat1LFVr","pdf",1586542,3,1,148,"English","en",105,"# Introduction by Charlotte Peacock\n# Part 1 - Descent from the Cross\n# Part 2 - The Deeside Field Writings\n## The Colours of Deeside\n## James McGregor and the Downies of Braemar\n## Wild Geese in Glen Callater\n## The Lupin Island\n# Part 3 - Poems\n## Achiltibuie\n## Next Morning\n## On a still morning\n## Rhu Coigach\n## Falketind\n## The Trees\n## Underground\n## The Dryad\n## Arthur’s Seat\n## The Burning Glass\n## Union\n## Street Urchins\n# Part 4 - On Poets\n## The Poetry of Hugh MacDiarmid\n## Marion Angus\n## Charles Murray\n# Part 5 - 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