Awards and Accolades
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Davis is the recipient of numerous awards including the Gold Medal of the Royal Canadian Geographical Society (2009), the 2002 Lowell Thomas Medal (The Explorers Club) and the 2002 Lannan Foundation $125,000 prize for literary non-fiction. He has been granted Honorary Degrees (Doctorate of Sciences) from University of Victoria (2003), University of Guelph (2008), Colorado College (2010) and University of Northern British Columbia (Doctorate of Laws 2010). In 2004 he was made an Honorary Member of the Explorers Club, one of twenty. In 2009 he was selected to be the speaker for the Massey Lectures, for his publication, The Wayfinders. In 2011 he will receive The Explorers Medal, the highest award of the Explorers Club.
- 2012 Samuel Johnson Prize, winner, Into the Silence
- 2012 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, shortlist, Into the Silence
- 2012 Governor General's Literary Award, shortlist, Into the Silence
- 2012 Banff Mountain Book Festival, Mountain & Wilderness Literature, shortlist, Into the Silence
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