| International Standard Book Number |
9780063265431
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063265435
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| Personal Name |
Swift, Earl, 1958- author.
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| Title Statement |
Up on Cove Mountain : adventure, tragedy, and a quest for meaning on the Appalachian Trail / Earl Swift.
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| Edition Statement |
First Edition.
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| Imprint |
New York : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color) ; 24 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Growing legs -- The easy middle -- Endless Virginia -- Way up down yonder -- The wilderness -- Into the high wilds -- Home through the desert.
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| Summary, Etc. |
In 1990, a youthful Earl Swift backpacked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, a transformative experience that colored every aspect of his later life. He emerged from his hike across the rugged, sky-high roof of fourteen eastern states a sharper and more organized thinker, a better problem solver, and a committed outdoorsman. But he also left the AT with baggage: Early in his odyssey, he spent time with a couple of other southbounders, who were friendly, capable, and doing everything right, but who were nonetheless murdered weeks later at a mountaintop campsite in Pennsylvania—a fit of violence that the killer never explained. Half a lifetime later, Swift returned to the trail to find out whether he was still, in his sixties, equal to the AT’s roller-coaster terrain. Driving him, too, was a quest for answers that had nagged at him since that first hike: What had happened at that campsite to turn two smart, bighearted people into prey? Why had fate chosen them, when other hikers—Swift included—seemed more likely candidates? And how could such a grisly episode have unfolded in the backcountry’s sylvan loveliness, not to mention one of the safest places around? Up on Cove Mountain is the arresting account of Swift’s 2024 trek through the AT’s enduring wonders and the ghosts of its past, a chronicle of swashbuckling adventure coupled with a meditation on the nature of risk and the risks of nature.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Swift, Earl, 1958-
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Appalachian Trail.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hikers Appalachian Mountains Anecdotes.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Appalachian Trail Description and travel.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Appalachian Mountains Description and travel.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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