David Roberts's Books
There are 9 books
1.
Devil's Gate
Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy
By: David Roberts
This edition: Hardcover, 416 pages
Publication date: September 16, 2008
The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles.Following the death of Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon...
2.
The Pueblo Revolt
The Secret Rebellion That Drove the Spaniards Out of the Southwest
By: David Roberts
This edition: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
Publication date: August 30, 2005
With the conquest of New Mexico in 1598, Spanish governors, soldiers, and missionaries began their brutal subjugation of the Pueblo Indians in what is today the Southwestern United States. This oppression continued for...
Other Formats: eBook
3.
On the Ridge Between Life and Death
A Climbing Life Reexamined
By: David Roberts
This edition: Hardcover, 432 pages
Publication date: August 23, 2005
What compels mountain climbers to take the risks that they do? Is it the thrill in the physical accomplishment, in managing to defy the odds, or both -- and why do they continue to do what they do in the face of such great...
4.
Four Against the Arctic
Shipwrecked for Six Years at the Top of the World
By: David Roberts
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: October 28, 2003
While reading Valerian Albanov's In the Land of White Death, David Roberts came across the mention of an old legend of four shipwrecked Russian sailors who had managed to survive six years stranded on a barren island in the...
5.
Escape from Lucania
An Epic Story of Survival
By: David Roberts
This edition: Hardcover, 224 pages
Publication date: October 1, 2002
In 1937, Mount Lucania was the highest unclimbed peak in North America. Located deep within the Saint Elias mountain range, which straddles the border of Alaska and the Yukon, and surrounded by glacial peaks, Lucania was all...
Other Formats: Trade Paperback
6.
A Newer World
Kit Carson, John C. Fremont and the Claiming of the American West
By: David Roberts
This edition: Hardcover, 320 pages
Publication date: January 7, 2000
Between 1842 and 1854 John C. Frémont, renowned as the nineteenth century's greatest explorer, and Kit Carson, the legendary scout and Indian fighter, boldly ventured into untamed territory to fulfill America's "manifest...
7.
The Lost Explorer
Finding Mallory On Mount Everest
By: Conrad Anker and David Roberts
This edition: eBook
Publication date: December 22, 1999
On June 8, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared somewhere near the summit of Mount Everest, leaving open the tantalizing question of whether they had reached the summit of Everest twenty-nine years before...
Other Formats: eAudio
8.
In Search of the Old Ones
By: David Roberts
This edition: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
Publication date: April 9, 1997
9.
Once They Moved Like The Wind
Cochise, Geronimo, And The Apache Wars
By: David Roberts
This edition: Trade Paperback, 368 pages
Publication date: July 19, 1994
