David Roberts
Author
Series
Questioneers volume 1
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
Language
English
Formats
Description
The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.
“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside
Wandering alone...
“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—Outside
Wandering alone...
3) Sweet poison
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
5) Hollow crown
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2002.
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Physical Desc
309 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
8) A grave man
Author
Series
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
First Carroll & Graf edition.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the epic journey undertaken by Douglas Mawson, who suffered starvation, the loss of his team, and a crippling foot injury as he resorted to crawling back to base camp during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1913.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In July 1776, the 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 natives along the way, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayó, hunting for sources of gold and silver, and paving the way for Spanish settlements....
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 undone 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...
17) The last of his kind: the life and adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's boldest mountaineer
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
334 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English