John Davis: 213 books

This Island Press E-ssential is the first in a three-part series that covers John Davis’s epic journey from Florida to Canada. During 10 months in 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles from the Florida Everglades to Canada’s Gaspé Peninsula by foot, bicycle,...

This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe/kayak. His extensive travels were motivated by wanting...

This E-ssential is a three-part series that covers John Davis's epic journey from Florida to Maine. In 2011, with support from the Wildlands Network, Davis traveled 7,600 miles in 10 months from Florida to Maine by foot, bicycle, skis, and canoe/kayak. His extensive traveles were motivated by wanting...

In 1957, the life of a seven-year-old Sydney boy was about to be torn asunder. For five years little John Davis was raped, intoxicated, drugged and lied to by a priest. The consequences were dire, including drug and alcohol abuse, self-harming, attempted suicide and severe mental illnesses which persist...

Evie is a loner, preferring the solitude of the moors to anything that civilization has to offer. She is also, she discovers as the beast awakens in her, a werewolf, not bitten but born that way, a fact which makes her unique. But she is not the only wild thing on the moors. For the Huntsman,...

Five friends meet at university, and fall into the habit of telling each other stories. And what begins as something to pass the time becomes something more, a way of expressing themselves, and of making sense of their lives and their growing feelings for one another, even as their own stories become...

“I yearn to take some hollow lane, or lazy winding way.”A fantasy travelogue, for all those who would gladly have never left the Shire.It is spring, and a gentleman traveller bids farewell to slate grey city streets, and heads out into the countryside, there to explore a land filled...

A basic guide to getting started shaving with a straight razor. Simplified, modernized instructions. Seventeen Photos included showing proper techniques for honing and stropping. "A picture is worth a thousand words" and this guide provides multiple photographs for illustrating what would take pages...

The book commemorates my mother, Millie B. Davis, for her achievements and contributions as a virtuous woman and mother, devoted Christian, outstanding member of the community, and loyal citizen of the United States. Mothers play an indispensable role in the existence of the human race; without them,...

Blues in D minor, big bellies over factory belts, and Elvis Presley license plates-Gigs is a collection of poems that shows us the gentle beauty of ordinary life. Davis's language breathes, without labor. His metaphors fit tight. And the rhythm of each word keeps pace with our innermost beats. Absolutely every poem in this book hammers a rightly strung cord.

Rarely in history has a great city arisen in a less likely place than the islands and mud flats of the Venetian lagoon. But they provided the city's founders with a refuge from the barbarians who had invaded their mainland homes. With energy and ingenuity, these displaced people created a maritime...

"Gunship: Legendary ties up the series like a whiskey-laden, zombie-slaying bow. A read that series fans cannot afford to miss!" The horde of infected has overrun the Drifts, making its way across the Skyla System and devastating everything in its path. Glimmeria has fallen, and...

The Diamond Approach has been developed and taught over the last twenty-five years by Hameed Ali (known chiefly by his pen name, A. H. Almaas), who is widely recognized as a leader in the integration of spirituality and psychology. This is the first book to introduce the complete spectrum of his teachings to a general audience.