David Roberts
Author
Series
Routledge library editions. Syria volume 1
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Language
English
Description
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. In the summer of 1680, led by a visionary shaman named Popé, the Puebloans revolted. Before then the many different Pueblo villages had never acted in concert (and never would again). Now, in total secrecy they coordinated an attack, routing the rulers in Santa...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Of the many tales of conflict and warfare between the U.S. government and the Indian tribes, perhaps none is more dramatic or revealing than the story of the Apache wars. Those wars were the final episode in the U.S. government's subjugation of the indigenous peoples; the surrender of Geronimo in 1886 effectively ended the Indian wars. As Anglo settlers moved into the Southwest in the mid-1800s, skirmishes with the Indians intensified. The Apaches...
Author
Publisher
Broadway Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of the early twentieth-century adventurer, writer, and watercolor artist, describing his early years as a child prodigy, his solitary journeys through the American Southwest, and his mysterious 1934 disappearance in Navajo country.
Author
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Verity Browne has returned from Prague with tuberculosis and is sent to a private clinic in Henley-on-Thames, a place with a connection to the recent murder of a dentist. She and Lord Edward Corinth become involved in an investigation into the mysterious deaths of three of the dentist's elderly patients, which comes to a climax during the Henley Royal Regatta.
Author
Publisher
Walker Books US, a division of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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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...