The Last Real Place
Published on 29. July 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
334 pages
979-8-89022-309-8 (ISBN)
Description
Award-winning writer of Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, winner of the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Award, a 2019 Spur Award Finalist and an "Editor's Choice" by The Historical Novel Society
Stoney St. Ney's love interest, Abby, comes face to face with trauma in her North Carolina high school, when two students go on a shooting rampage in the library. Concerned about her safety, Stoney leaves Camp Itawa in the off-season to offer moral and physical support to Abby, but the local sheriff does not welcome Stoney's presence.When the teenaged runaways avoid capture by law enforcement and disappear into the nearby Smoky Mountain National Park, Stoney and his Cherokee friend and mentor, Bobby Whitehorse, know that it is they who have the best chance of tracking down the two young outlaws. Praise for Mark Warren"Woven with clarity and colorful prose, Warren leads readers on an odyssey . . ." -True West Magazine on Promised Land"A good book offers the ultimate escape . . . armchair travel to those wild places of the imagination. Warren's book took me to places I had previously not expected to visit, but I'm really glad I went there. -New Zealand Booklovers on Promised Land"Warren's novel paints a vivid picture . . . and its colorful similes will put a smile on any genre-fiction lover's face." -Booklist on Born to the BadgeMore details
Series
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
449 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-89022-309-8 (9798890223098)
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Person
Mark Warren owns and runs nationally renowned Medicine Bow Wilderness School in the Southern Appalachians of Dahlonega, GA where he teaches nature classes and primitive skills of the Cherokee. Mark has taught survival courses to thousands of schools and groups all over the country.In 1980, the National Wildlife Federation honored Mark as Georgia's Conservation Educator of the Year. In 1998 he became the U.S. National Champion in whitewater canoeing, and in 1999, he won the World Championship Longbow title.Another passion for Mark has been researching the West for more than 60 years. He has presented as a western historian at top western museums around the country.