“It’s a grand thing to get leave to live”
by
Erlend Clouston:
writer and journalist, knew Nan Shepherd for 35 years
and now acts as Nan’s literary executor.
on Saturday 10th November 2018 at 2.30pm followed by tea
at the Maintlandfield Hotel, Haddington
Erlend Clouston will relate how and why Nan Shepherd’s photo appears on the new Royal Bank of Scotland £5 note.
Nan Shepherd was born in 1893 and died in 1981. She spent almost all of her life in north east Scotland, close to Aberdeen. This allowed her extraordinary explorations of the natural heritage of the Cairngorms.
He will concentrate on Shepherd’s book “The Living Mountain” which has been acclaimed as one of the classic novels about the Scottish landscape. Whilst this book explores Shepherd’s love of the Cairngorm mountains her insights are applicable to any natural landscape, not least those of East Lothian.
Non members welcome, however a £2 contribution towards costs appreciated