David Roberts
Author
Series
Publisher
ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
This beloved New York Times bestselling picture book is a fun-filled, inspiring story about the power of teamwork and the importance of celebrating individual gifts and self-expression.
And now you can follow Iggy's further adventures—with his friends Rosie Revere and Ada Twist—in the instant New York Times bestseller Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters, an all-new chapter book starring The
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 1
Language
English
Description
Having escaped an Australian maximum security prison, a disillusioned man loses himself in the slums of Bombay, where he works for a drug kingpin, smuggles arms for a crime lord, and forges bonds with fellow exiles.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the "dean of adventure writing." By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a 23-year-old explorer, led thirteen scientists and...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
368 p., [24] p. plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company, Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument. The Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah, created by President Obama in 2016 and eviscerated by President Trump in 2017, contains more archaeological sites than any other region in the United States. It's also a spectacularly beautiful landscape, a mosaic of sandstone canyons and bold mesas and buttes. This wilderness, now threatened...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
271 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines the history, culture, and architecture of the legendary Anasazi people in an attempt to discover who they were and why they abandoned their civilization more than seven centuries ago.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In The Lost World of the Old Ones, David Roberts expands and updates the research from his 1996 classic, In Search of the Old Ones. As he elucidates startling archaeological breakthroughs, Roberts also recounts his past twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock-art...
11) Sweet poison
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Walker Books US
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
128 pages : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
Imprisonment, hunger strikes, suffrajitsu -- the decades-long fight for women's right to vote was at times a ferocious one. Acclaimed artist David Roberts gives these important, socially transformative times their due in a colorfully illustrated history that includes many of the important faces of the movement in portraiture and scenes that both dignify and enliven. He has created a timely and thoroughly engaging resource in his first turn as nonfiction...
14) Hollow crown
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
309 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
15) Dangerous sea
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
248 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
16) A grave man
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Physical Desc
262 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Peterson field guide volume 47
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
viii, 402 p., [94] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayó, hunting for sources of gold and...
