David Roberts

A New York Times best-selling illustrator turns his talents to a lavish history of the women's suffrage movement in the U.K. and the U.S. just in time for the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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

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Healing Conversations brings to life the seven elements of how to have deep and fulfilling conversations so that people can connect in a world with many conversational obstacles. Conversation is the way human beings connect. Great friendships are defined by the way one speaks, listens, and flows through the joy of effortless conversation. As the divisions in culture deepen due to politics, generational misunderstanding, the complexity of gender,...

En 1965, quatre jeunes étudiants de Harvard se lancent à l'assaut du spectaculaire mont Huntington, décrit comme le joyau caché de l'Alaska et l'une des plus belles montagnes au monde. Leur objectif est de tenter ce qui paraissait jusqu'alors impossible car beaucoup trop dangereux: gravir une véritable grande paroi en Alaska. La Montagne de ma peur est le récit de cette ascension par l'un des quatre membres de l'expédition. Mais il raconte...

Are you tired of never getting an interview after applying for a job? Do you feel that if you could just get an interview you would do fine and be successful? If either is true, then help is at hand. This brand new book "How to Write a Cover Letter for Job Applications" is the real deal. This is one guide that does not mess with your career aspirations - it tells you the truth and what you really need to do to get to the interview room. Discover how...

A celebrated mountaineer and author searches for meaning in great adventures and explorations, past and present. David Roberts, "veteran mountain climber and chronicler of adventures" (Washington Post), has spent his career documenting voyages to the most extreme landscapes on earth. In Limits of the Known, he reflects on humanity's-and his own-relationship to extreme risk. Part memoir and part history, this book tries to make sense of why so many...

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 the Trump administration 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,...

An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants. In this thrilling story of intellectual and archaeological discovery, David Roberts recounts his last twenty years of far-flung exploits in search of spectacular prehistoric ruins and rock art panels known to very few modern travelers. His adventures range across Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern...

His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.

On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, 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

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The erection of a new retirement village in suburban Adelaide is proceeding well and an eclectic mix of retirees take up residence as the well-appointed retirement units become available. The kind of carefree, comfortably relaxed lifestyle that retirees look forward to is soon established and friendships are forged. There is even some late blooming romance. However, after a few months, strange and unpleasant things start to happen in the village apparently...

This is the story of Graham, a nine-year-old lad living in country New South Wales around 1960. Life on the family farm is far from idyllic for Graham though, as he is confronted by a series of challenges; dealing with the realization that he has, been adopted, a difficult relationship with his philandering father and the tragic decline of the health of his much, adored younger sister. And then, there is the discovery of a mysterious man living like...