John H. Davies Bücher
John Davies ist ein britischer Kartensammler, dessen Faszination für sowjetische Kartografie während seiner Arbeit in Lettland Anfang der 2000er Jahre begann. Nach seiner Pensionierung aus einer Karriere im Bereich Informationstechnik widmet er sich nun dem Schreiben und Halten von Vorträgen über diese einzigartigen Karten. Davies ist außerdem Herausgeber von Sheetlines, dem Journal der Charles Close Society, das sich dem Studium von Ordnance Survey Maps widmet. Seine Arbeit befasst sich mit der historischen und kulturellen Bedeutung, die in kartografischen Unternehmungen steckt.
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.
Hanes Cymru (A History of Wales in Welsh)
- 752 Seiten
- 27 Lesestunden
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 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
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.