The Country Northward: A Hiker's Journal, On the Trail in the White Mountains of New Hampshire - Softcover

Daniel Ford

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1452830924 ISBN 13: 9781452830926

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2010

Synopsis

Larger than the state of Rhode Island and laced by a thousand miles of trails, the White Mountains have long been a hiker's paradise. Here is a first-person account of the world that begins where the pavement ends. Fishermen, backpackers, trail-bikers ... goofers, peak baggers, and through hikers ... you'll find them all in the White Mountains, and you'll meet them all in the pages of this compelling book.The year is 1975, when it was still possible to find space in a lean-to shelter, when the Old Man of the Mountains still showed his splendid profile over Franconia Notch, and when hikers still smoked.

About this title

From the Author:

Thirty-five years later, I still experience a thrill when I read the story of my walk through the mountains in July 1975. So I publish it again with the fewest possible changes. I've quietly fixed a few errors of fact, along with one great personal failing, taking out all references to the cigarettes I smoked along the way. (I quit smoking the following year, at ten o'clock in the morning on May 4.) Otherwise, where it seemed advisable to update what I wrote at the time, I have put the new stuff in brackets [like this]. -- Daniel Ford

From the Back Cover:

'Lively, entertaining ... an excellent piece of work'
 
So wrote the editors of Yankee magazine when this book was first published. "It is a story about backpacking," wrote another reviewer. "It is a story about a quest for solitude and untrammeled nature, and it is a story about Daniel Ford, whose personality and point of view lend the book a distinctive and human character."
 
A generation has passed, and much has changed, since Dan's trek across the White Mountains in the summer of 1975. Even the Great Stone Face--the Old Man of the Mountains--has fallen. (The cover shows the Old Man after a spring snowfall, a week before the icon collapsed in May 2003, in a photo by Jeffrey Joseph.)
 
But the wilderness endures, and so does this story of one hiker and the men and women he met along the trail.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1452830924
• ISBN 13: 9781452830926
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 174