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Nan (Anna) Shepherd (1893 â 1981). Anna Shepherd, also known as Nan, was born on February 11 th 1893 in East Peterculter at Westerton Cottage close to Aberdeen in the North-East of Scotland. Nan was an author, college teacher, an avid mountain climber.Not only did Shepherd write poems and author books she also edited different magazines.hepherd was born to John and Jane Smith Shepherd, and was the second child of John who was a civil engineer. Other family members in Shepherdâs family also held respectable occupations.
It was a pilgrimage and not an attack.. Macfarlane says Nan Shepherd was in love with what she called the tang of height. She wrote: Summer on the high plateau can be as delectable as honey; it can also be a roaring scourge.To those who love the place, both are good, since both are part of its essential nature.And it is to know its essential nature that I am seeking here.. Image caption Robert Macfarlane travels in the footsteps of Nan Shepherd. According to Macfarlane, two beautiful ideas emerge from Nan Shepherd's book.hepherd wrote: Often the mountain gives itself most completely when I have no destination but have gone out merely to be with the mountain as one visits a friend, with no intention but to be with him.. Nan Shepherd was born in the village of Cults on the outskirts of Aberdeen in 1893.