Cold Mountain Alan Temperley or how he manages to

or how he manages to vanish without a trace after his thefts

I've had an extraordinary life

but not before a king and proud warrior nation have paid the price of history

hoping to discredit him

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Cold Mountain Alan Temperley or how he manages toA soldier wounded in the Civil War, Inman turns his back on the carnage of the battlefield and begins the treacherous journey home to Cold Mountain, and to Ada, the woman he loved before the war began. As Inman attempts to make his way across the mountains, through the devastated landscape of a soon to be defeated South, Ada struggles to make a living from the land her once wealthy father left when he died. Neither knows if the other is still alive.