In Seven Days to Freedom, John Davies shows how the biblical story of Creation is all about liberation and demonstrates how it is relevant to many contemporary concerns, including housing and land-tenure, slavery, climate- change, and education.
John H. Davies Books
John Davies is a British map collector whose fascination with Soviet mapping began while working in Latvia in the early 2000s. Now retired from a career in Information Systems, he dedicates his time to writing and lecturing about these unique maps. Davies also serves as the editor of Sheetlines, the Journal of The Charles Close Society, focusing on the study of Ordnance Survey Maps. His work delves into the historical and cultural significance embedded within cartographic endeavors.
Hanes Cymru (A History of Wales in Welsh)
- 752 pages
- 27 hours of reading
Yn ymestyn o'r Oesoedd Ia hyd y dwthwn hwn, mae'r gyfrol feistrolgar hon yn olrhain hanes gwleidyddol, cymdeithasol a diwylliannol y rhan honno o'r byd y daethpwyd i'w hadnabod fel Cymru. Dyma'r llyfr sy'n egluro pam, er gwaethaf pawb a phopeth, 'rydym yma o hyd'.
From earliest records to the present day in one easy-to-read volume
The Red Atlas
- 234 pages
- 9 hours of reading
From 1950 to 1990, the Soviet Army conducted a global topographic mapping program, creating large-scale maps for much of the world that included a diversity of detail that would have supported a full range of military planning. For big cities like New York, DC, and London to towns like Pontiac, MI and Galveston, TX, the Soviets gathered enough information to create street-level maps. What they chose to include on these maps can seem obvious like locations of factories and ports, or more surprising, such as building heights, road widths, and bridge capacities. Some of the detail suggests early satellite technology, while other specifics, like detailed depictions of depths and channels around rivers and harbors, could only have been gained by actual Soviet feet on the ground. The Red Atlas includes over 350 extracts from these Cold War maps, exploring their provenance and cartographic techniques as well as what they can tell us about their makers and the Soviet initiatives that were going on all around us.
John Davies takes you on his journeys of 60 years travelling through most of Europe and North America, and invites you to share his wonderful train journeys, the great outdoors, inspiring countries and cities, together with a look at the contemporary scene as he sees it.
