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Barcode30053003530311
Home LocationParis-Bourbon
Call NoB SWIF
Title Up on Cove Mountain : adventure, tragedy, and a quest for meaning on the Appalachian Trail / Earl Swift.
Author Swift, Earl 1958- author.
CollectionNEW: Adult Biography
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 Paris-Bourbon30053003530311B SWIF8/24/2026 Available

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Personal Name Swift, Earl 1958- author.
Title Statement Up on Cove Mountain : adventure, tragedy, and a quest for meaning on the Appalachian Trail / Earl Swift.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Mariner Books, [2026]
Physical Description 368 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Content Type text txt rdacontent
Media Type unmediated n rdamedia
Carrier Type volume rdacarrier
Bibliography, Etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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?"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject-Personal Name Swift, Earl 1958-
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Murder Appalachian Trail.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Backpacking Appalachian Trail.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Life change events.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Hiking Appalachian Trail.
Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term Appalachian Trail.
Index Term-Genre/Form True crime stories. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Travel writing. lcgft
Index Term-Genre/Form Memoirs. lcgft

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