The Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal, On the Trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781452830926)

Daniel Ford is a New Hampshire-based journalist, novelist, and historian. He is best known for his prize-winning history of the American Volunteer Group, the "Flying Tigers" who protected Burma and China in the earth months of the Pacific War, 1941-1942. As a reporter in South Vietnam in 1964, he went on the mission that became the novel "Incident at Muc Wa" and the acclaimed Burt Lancaster film, "Go Tell the Spartans." He is a sometime hiker, skier, and recreational pilot.