David Roberts, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1418-6
Those who wish Dorothy L. Sayers had written more Lord Peter stories will embrace British author Roberts's fifth historical (after 2003's Dangerous Sea
) to feature Lord Edward Corinth, a wealthy bachelor and unofficial investigator for...
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David Roberts, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5518-9
More than a few readers will think of John Krakauer's Into Thin Air
as they delve into this bracing work. The connection isn't surprising, since Roberts has served as a mentor to Krakauer. Throughout his life, Roberts has been an avid...
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David Roberts, Author . Soho Constable $25 (259p) ISBN 978-1-56947-539-3
A foreign plot to assassinate Winston Churchill drives Roberts's disappointing ninth mystery to feature Lord Edward Corinth and journalist Verity Brown (after 2007's Something Wicked
). In early 1939, MI5 sends jaded aristocrat Corinth to...
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David Roberts, Author . Morrow $25.99 (334p) ISBN 978-0-06-156094-1
Before his 30th birthday, Bradford Washburn was already a legendary mountaineer, completing four major first ascents on his way to becoming “the greatest mountaineer in Alaskan history.” Soon after, Washburn took over the creaky New...
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David Roberts, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (279p) ISBN 978-0-7432-5516-5
In 1598, Spain established a colony in what is today New Mexico; roughly 80 years later, more than 75% of the indigenous population was dead. A Pueblo shaman named Popé led survivors in a violent uprising in 1680 that resulted in a decade and
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David Roberts, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-684-83482-5
Kit Carson (1809-1868) and John Fremont (1813-1890) are not generally regarded as a pair the way Lewis and Clark are in terms of exploring new territory. Indeed, Carson and Fr mont are only teamed in two of the four expeditions recounted by Roberts...
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David Roberts, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-86757-1
First published in France in 1951, Maurice Herzog's Annapurna remains one of the canonical works in exploration literature; Roberts notes that Herzog's account of his team's harrowing, ultimately successful conquest of the Himalayan peak has been...
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David Roberts, Author . Carroll & Graf $22 (342p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0908-3
It's 1936, Spain is on the verge of civil war, the Nazis are threatening Europe's stability and Lord Edward Corinth is coming to terms with the decline of his own titled class in England—made all too clear by the murder of three of...
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David Roberts, Author . Simon & Schuster $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2431-4
The author of Escape from Lucania uncovers an extraordinary tale, set in the mid–18th century, about four Russian hunters stranded on a desolate Arctic isle with scant resources, who survived for six years. Initially, Roberts is so preoccupied
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David Roberts, Author Little Brown and Company $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-316-74998-5
Like her first husband, Robert Lowell, and many of their friends, American novelist and short-story writer Jean Stafford drank and smoked to excess, was casual about nutrition and suffered from a nearly uninterrupted gauntlet of mental and physical...
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David Roberts, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (368p) ISBN 978-0-671-70221-2
During the westward settlement, for more than 20 years Apache tribes eluded both U.S. and Mexican armies, and by 1886 an estimated 9000 armed men were in pursuit. Roberts ( Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative ) presents a moving account of the end of...
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David Roberts, Author Simon & Schuster $24 (272p) ISBN 978-0-684-81078-2
Six hundred years ago, the Anasazi, said to be the ancestors of the Hopi, Zuni and other Pueblo peoples, left their homes in the region known as the Four Corners, where Colorado, Utah, New Mexico and Arizona converge, and disappeared. They had...
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David Roberts, Author Carroll & Graf Publishers $22 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7867-0819-2
In this workmanlike novel death comes to General Sir Alistair Craig, a WWI veteran with a checkered past, with the serving of the after-dinner port at the lavish home of the duke of Mersham. The setting is England in the '30s. The dinner topic is...
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David Roberts, Author, Jon Karkauer, Photographer, Jon Krakauer, Photographer ABRAMS $39.95 (159p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3452-8
In an ingenious approach to a little-viewed land, journalist/outdoorsman Roberts and Krakauer ( Eiger Dreams ) examine Iceland today through its principal literary heritage. The harsh backdrop of the heroic tales featuring the fierce, beautiful...
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David Roberts, Author, Roberts David, Author . Simon & Schuster $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2432-1
This short but sweet look at the ascent two Harvard buddies made of Mt. Lucania in the Yukon Valley in 1937—at the time, the highest unclimbed North American peak at 17,150 feet—is a welcome respite from the high-tech, thrill-a-minute...
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David Roberts, Author . Abrams $14.95 (28p) ISBN 978-0-8109-4259-2
English author-illustrator Roberts's (Cinderella: An Art Deco Love Story) tale stars Bertie, an unkempt boy with a finger up his nose, who adores all things sticky and gross. Bertie eats dog food, grabs a lollipop off the sidewalk and merrily...
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David Roberts, Author . Carroll & Graf $24.95 (229p) ISBN 978-0-78671-840-5
Framed by a string of murders at the English country estate of Lord Mountbatten, Roberts's seventh Lord Edward Corinth and Verity Brown murder mystery (after 2004's The More Deceived
) falls short of the high standard he set with his best...
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David Roberts, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1052-2
Roberts (The Bones of the Buried; Sweet Poison)
just keeps getting better with each book in this historical series about Lord Edward Corinth, a jaded English aristocrat, and Verity Browne, a journalist with leftist sympathies and a Schaparelli...
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David Roberts, Author . Carroll & Graf $24 (320p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1215-1
In Roberts's fourth solid entry in his stylish cozy series set in the 1930s (after 2003's Hollow Crown
), Lord Edward Corinth, wealthy man-about-town, and journalist Verity Browne, a card-carrying communist, travel first-class aboard the...
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David Roberts, Author . Carroll & Graf $25 (262p) ISBN 978-0-7867-1596-1
Roberts's convoluted 1930s historical lacks the amusing spark of earlier entries in the series (The More Deceived
, etc.). Lord Edward Corinth, unofficial troubleshooter for the British Foreign Office, and Verity Browne, foreign correspondent...
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David Roberts, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (402p) ISBN 978-1-4165-3988-9
In 1856, two groups of Mormon emigrants using handcarts to transport their belongings got a disastrously late start on their westward trek to Utah. Unexpected October blizzards and the lack of restocked supplies left them stranded in Wyoming, coping
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David Roberts, foreword by Jon Krakauer. Broadway, $25 (304p) ISBN 978-0-307-59176-0
In this exhaustive biography, Roberts (No Shortcuts to the Top) retraces the life and disappearance of Everett Ruess in 1934. A young artist and adventurer, Ruess left home in Los Angeles at 16 and spent most of the following four years traveling...
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David Roberts. Norton, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-08371-2
Painting a realistic portrait of Aussie explorer Douglas Mawson and his arduous trek through some of the most treacherous icy Antarctic terrain, Roberts (The Mountain of Fear) gives the reader a very close look at the huge risks and preparations of...
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David Roberts. Norton, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-393-24162-4
This rather puzzling book, a sequel of sorts to In Search of the Old Ones (1996), is a detailed guide to the archaeology of the American Southwest, particularly the areas inhabited by the Anasazi, or (in what Roberts terms "p.c." parlance) "Ancestral
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David Roberts. Norton, $26.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-393-60986-8
Roberts, an adventurer and author of nearly 30 books (Alone on the Ice, etc.), movingly reflects on his life prior to undergoing throat-cancer treatment that made physical exertion nearly impossible for him. The diagnosis led him to consider the...
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David Roberts. Norton, $26.95 (360p) ISBN 978-0-393-65206-2
In this somewhat disappointing entry, adventure writer Roberts (The Mountain of My Fear) describes a six-week journey that he and his wife made through Colorado, Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico, intending to follow in the footsteps of two 18th-century
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David Roberts. Morgan James Faith, $15.99 trade paper (198p) ISBN 978-1-64279-754-1
Roberts, lead pastor of Montrose Church in Montrose, Calif., explores in this insightful but cursory debut a type of conversation called relational talking, which is characterized by the goals of hospitality, openness, and an eagerness to understand
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David Roberts. Norton, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-324-00481-3
Embedded in the land surrounding Utah’s Bears Ears are “all kinds of poignant ironies and surprising contradictions,” writes adventurer Roberts (Limits of the Known) in this engrossing history of an area that’s become enveloped in controversy....
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David Roberts. Norton, $30 (384p) ISBN 978-0-393-86811-1
Climber Roberts (Alone on the Ice) recounts the story of “forgotten hero” Henry George “Gino” Watkins (1907–1932) and his 1930 Greenland expedition in this gripping narrative. The 23-year-old Englishman and his 13 teammates set sail in July with...
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David Roberts. Chicago Review, $30 (256p) ISBN 978-0-914090-37-3
Security consultant Roberts debuts with a blunt account of his seven-year stint as Whitney Houston’s bodyguard. After a career in the North Wales Police and the Royal Air Force, Roberts was running a security firm when he was offered the role of...
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David Roberts. Walker Books US, $25 (128p) ISBN 978-1-5362-0841-2
Roberts’s (Rosie Revere, Engineer) handsomely illustrated history of the battle for women’s suffrage in the U.K. and the U.S. makes its American debut in time for the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. Though heavily tilted toward events and...
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