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THE LIVING MOUNTAIN - NAN SHEPHERD KARTONIERT (TB)

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. Robert Macfarlane's Mountains of the Mind: A History of a
Fascination (2003)  won the Guardian First Book Award  the Somerset Maugham Award  and the
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. Robert Macfarlane is a Fellow of Emmanuel College
Cambridge. He lives in Cambridge with his family.

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