| International Standard Book Number |
9780063265431
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| International Standard Book Number |
0063265435
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
796.51092
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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 |
?20
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| Imprint |
New York : Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24
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| General Note |
'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 natur
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-347) and inde
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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 deser
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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 aroun
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Swift, Earl, 195
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Murder Appalachian Trai
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Hikers Appalachian Mountain
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Appalachian Trail Description and trave
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Appalachian Mountains Description and trave
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Anecdotes.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
True crime stories.
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