Up on Cove Mountain adventure, tragedy, and a quest for meaning on the Appalachian Trail
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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins,
[2026]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | 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? |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (mostly color), map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-347) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780063265431 0063265435 |
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