Charles Davis's Books
Jan.15.2013
A full guide to the Cathar Way, a 250 kilometre trail crossing the Languedoc region of southern France from the foothills of the Pyrenees to the shores of the Mediterranean.
Key features of the book include:
- 17 stage by stage walk descriptions covering the full linear route including all variants;
- 10 circular routes exploring the best of the region’s day walks, ranging from...
Apr.10.2012
Climbing Into Cliché: A Better Costa Blanca
Read any good-life, back-to-basics, season-in-the-sun farm yarn about expats settling in Spain, and you can be fairly sure there will come a moment when the narrator takes to the mountains for a walk that proves to be a state-of-the-heart experience in which engagement with the landscape aspires to a quasi-spiritual empathy. It's a rite...
Feb.01.2011
Two people, two faiths, one hope, one destiny . . . .
A white woman and a black man, stranded in the desert in a land laid waste by an undeclared war. She is a campaigning academic and believes in justice, absolutely. He is a barefoot librarian and believes in books, just about. Hunted by The Warriors of God, they must take refuge in the mountains and learn to live with their...
May.30.2009
If you want to get away from it all , there is no surer way than strapping on your boots, shouldering your backpack, and embarking on a long distance path; and there are few long distance paths more beguiling and more crammed with adventure than Mallorca s GR221, La Ruta de Pedra en Sec or The Dry Stone Way. Anybody who has visited Mallorca will appreciate the justice of the GR221...
Fully illustrated GPS ready walking guides from Discovery Walking Guides at www.walking.demon.co.uk
Walk! The Alpujarras
Walk! Mallorca (North & Mountains)
Walk! Mallorca (West)
Walk! Mallorca GR221 (The Dry Stone Way)
Walk! La Gomera
Walk! La Palma
Walk! Andorra
Walk! The Axarquia
Walk! Brittany (North)
Walk! The Lake District (South)
Walk! Dorset
Fully illustrated walking...
Bumping About Brittany is a guidebook with a difference, a series of excursions into the cultural, physical and emotional heartland of Brittany that can be followed up on the ground or simply consumed in the comfort of your own home as a good read.
Taken together, the twenty-five chapters/adventures/essays amount to a portrait of the region, its history, its landscape, its people...
Santa Margarita y Los Monjes is a small place, but that doesn't prevent things happening on a large scale. Gravity is suspended in the Case of the Disappearing Private Parts, war is turned upside down and inside out because making love really is much more fun, greed gets flushed into the underworld where it belongs, and death is exposed as something less than it's cracked up to be...
A touching account of friendship and betrayal in Moorish Spain, WALK ON, BRIGHT BOY evokes the pleasures and purposes of walking as a way of engaging with life. Marrying a coming-of-age tale with Gothic horror, it is at once an adventure story, a celebration of the power of dreams, magic and illusion, and an uplifting fable about the joys of living, even in the shadow of death....
About Charles
Charles Davis was born and educated, and has travelled and worked. He now lives and writes. That has always seemed to me to be enough biography for any writer, but being an avid reader, too, I appreciate that curiosity demands a bit more, so . . . .
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Connections
Causes Charles Davis Supports
Oxfam, Amnesty International, Greenpeace