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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Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins,
[2026]
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Up on Cove Mountain : |b adventure, tragedy, and a quest for meaning on the Appalachian Trail / |c Earl Swift. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins, |c [2026] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2026. | |
| 300 | |a viii, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (mostly color), map ; |c 24 cm. | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 334-347) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Growing legs -- The easy middle -- Endless Virginia -- Way up down yonder -- The wilderness -- Into the high wilds -- Home through the desert. | |
| 520 | |a 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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