Cartoon of a freckled woman with a red braid and a green shawl.

1893–1981

Nan Shepherd

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The writer of The Living Mountain.

Nan Shepherd was a writer. She was a woman.

She came from Aberdeen.

She walked in the Cairngorm mountains.

She wrote The Living Mountain.

It tells how the hills look, sound, and feel.

For years the book sat in a drawer. People love it now.