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The Big Roads

The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

by Earl Swift ...

Discover the twists and turns of one of America's great infrastructure projects with this "engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system" ( Los Angeles Times).It's become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and roadside rest stops, a familiar route for commuters and vacationing families. But during the twentieth century, the ... Read more

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Discover the twists and turns of one of America's great infrastructure projects with this "engrossing history of the creation of the U.S. interstate system" ( Los Angeles Times).It's become a part of the landscape that we take for granted, the site of rumbling eighteen-wheelers and roadside rest stops, a familiar route for commuters and vacationing families. But during the twentieth century, the
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Chesapeake Requiem

A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

by Earl Swift ...

A New York Times–bestselling portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Bloomberg, Science Friday, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, and Kirkus ReviewsTangier Island, Virgin... ... Read more

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A New York Times–bestselling portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Bloomberg, Science Friday, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, and Kirkus ReviewsTangier Island, Virgin...
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Up on Cove Mountain

Adventure, Tragedy, and a Quest for Meaning on the Appalachian Trail

by Earl Swift ...

From the New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes an intricately plotted tale of two end-to-end adventures through the Appalachian Trail’s twenty-two hundred miles, braided around a third strand, that of the trail’s most notorious tragedy that has haunted Earl Swift for thirty years.In 1990, a youthful Earl Swift backpacked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, a ... Read more

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From the New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes an intricately plotted tale of two end-to-end adventures through the Appalachian Trail’s twenty-two hundred miles, braided around a third strand, that of the trail’s most notorious tragedy that has haunted Earl Swift for thirty years.In 1990, a youthful Earl Swift backpacked the Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia, a
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Across the Airless Wilds

The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

by Earl Swift ...

"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." —The Times (London)A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of human adventure and exploration.One ... Read more

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"THRILLING. ... Up-end[s] the Apollo narrative entirely." —The Times (London)A "brilliantly observed" (Newsweek) and "endlessly fascinating" (WSJ) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, revealing why these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of human adventure and exploration.One
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Where They Lay

A Forensic Expedition in the Jungles of Laos

by Earl Swift ...

PEN/Martha Albrand Award Finalist: The suspenseful, "poignant" true story of the search for an American military pilot's remains in Southeast Asia (James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers).Where They Lay is both an account of an elite military team's high-tech, high-risk search for a Vietnam War pilot's remains, and a moving retelling of his intense final hours.In far-flung rain forests and ... Read more

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PEN/Martha Albrand Award Finalist: The suspenseful, "poignant" true story of the search for an American military pilot's remains in Southeast Asia (James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers).Where They Lay is both an account of an elite military team's high-tech, high-risk search for a Vietnam War pilot's remains, and a moving retelling of his intense final hours.In far-flung rain forests and
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Hell Put to Shame

The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

by Earl Swift ...

A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) * A Virginia Literary Awards Finalist"A haunted, historical legal thriller." — Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes "a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their ... Read more

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A Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award Finalist (Best Fact Crime) * A Virginia Literary Awards Finalist"A haunted, historical legal thriller." — Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionFrom the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Chesapeake Requiem comes "a powerfully unsettling portrait of the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their
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Auto Biography

A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream

by Earl Swift ...

A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him.Slumped among hundreds of other decrepit hulks on a ... Read more

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A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government bureaucrats and the FBI close in on him.Slumped among hundreds of other decrepit hulks on a
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Journey on the James

Three Weeks through the Heart of Virginia

by Earl Swift ...

From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and ... Read more

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From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and
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The Tangierman's Lament

and Other Tales of Virginia

by Earl Swift ...

Go where the story is--that’s one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed--even spelunked--a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating ... Read more

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Go where the story is--that’s one tenet of journalism Earl Swift has had little trouble living up to. In two decades of covering the commonwealth, Swift has hiked, canoed--even spelunked--a singular path through Virginia. He has also stopped and listened. This collection brings together some twenty Virginia tales wherein hardship is revealed as tragedy, and humor appears as uncanny, illuminating
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Hell Put to Shame

The 1921 Murder Farm Massacre and the Horror of America's Second Slavery

by Earl Swift ...

Narrated by Mark Deakins ...

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12 hours 22 min

"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory." —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the ... Read more

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"Hell Put to Shame is a powerfully unsettling portrait of both the single most savage episode in the long decades of savagery inflicted by white southerners on their Black neighbors in the 20**th** century—and the methodical process that followed to erase those crimes from America’s collective memory." —Douglas A. Blackmon, author of Slavery by Another Name, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeFrom the
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Across the Airless Wilds

The Lunar Rover and the Triumph of the Final Moon Landings

by Earl Swift ...

Narrated by Adam Verner ...

Unabridged

10 hours 7 min

“Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep."" —Hampton SidesIn this ""brilliantly observed"" (Newsweek) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of *Chesapeake Requiem*reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of ... Read more

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“Earl Swift lays out this great unsung saga with verve and magisterial sweep."" —Hampton SidesIn this ""brilliantly observed"" (Newsweek) rediscovery of the final Apollo moon landings, the acclaimed author of *Chesapeake Requiem*reveals that these extraordinary yet overshadowed missions—distinguished by the use of the revolutionary lunar roving vehicle—deserve to be celebrated as the pinnacle of
... Read more

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Chesapeake Requiem

A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

by Earl Swift ...

Narrated by Tom Parks ...

Unabridged

12 hours 51 min

A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, **NPR, *Outside,***Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus"BEA... ... Read more

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A brilliant, soulful, and timely portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, **NPR, *Outside,***Smithsonian, Popular Science, Bloomberg, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, Science Friday, and Kirkus"BEA...
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