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- ISBN 9781493085088
- Weight: 653g
- Dimensions: 151 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 18 Aug 2024
- Publisher: Globe Pequot Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Ghosts of Glencoe is a riveting multi-generational adventure of self-discovery. The novel spans a mere four months, set at a unique junior boarding school, and played out in the rugged Adirondack mountains of New York.
This is a hero’s journey for two flawed protagonists, one fifteen, the other sixty-three. Both struggle to be accountable to themselves and to those who love them, for their hubris, betrayals, for the shadows they created and still carry. In their tortuous path to absolution, both discover one is never too young to teach, nor too old to learn.
In the fall of 2002, dramatic events engulf three ninth graders (not the best of friends), their passionate Scottish headmaster, and an unlikely pair of escapees from a nearby prison. The inevitable collision of these forces demonstrates that age and experience have no monopoly on bravery or vulnerability. Only after superficial differences are peeled away can the teens summon the strength to find common ground to confront their frailties under the most trying conditions—lost in the snowy mountains with rescuers urgently trying to find them and the convicts desperately plotting to eliminate them.
A page-turning adventure set in wilderness that is as much a factor as the characters themselves, Ghosts of Glencoe entertains, educates, and illustrates how the mountaineering mantra—Fellowship of the Rope—embodies the imperative that if we don’t hang together, we will surely hang alone.
Chuck Schwerin is a serial entrepreneur, co-founder of several medical device and biotech startups, and mentor in his role as Managing Director of Business Services at Ithaca Area Economic Development. He holds three patents on geographic information technology and was an adjunct professor, teaching entrepreneurship at Binghamton University.
As a committed environmentalist, Schwerin’s volunteer work reflects those passions. Through his editorship, he transformed Adirondack PEEKS magazine for the Adirondack 46ers and is currently on the Board of the Edward L. Rose Land Conservancy and responsible for their online newsletter. He is also a cofounder of the Alpine Stewardship Center (ASC), a U.S. affiliate of the World Trails Network that promotes mountain conservation education and trail stewardship for the entire northeast. Through Schwerin’s fundraising efforts for ASC, and a pre-eminent educational institution—Lake Placid-based Camp Treetops/North Country School—he is connected to a luminary network of outdoors enthusiasts and wilderness philanthropists.
His passion for mountains is not only reflected as a central theme in The Ghosts of Glencoe, but has been the impetus for climbing trips on his own, as well as guiding children, to mountain ranges in many parts of the world.
