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David Roberts

David Roberts (1943–2021) was the author of thirty books on mountaineering, exploration, and anthropology. His books have won the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature and the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Book Competition.

David Roberts

Awards

Shortlisted — Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, 2016

Shortlisted — PEN/ESPN Award for Literary Sports Writing, 2019

Books by David Roberts

The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
David Roberts
Paperback, 2022
A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save an American national monument
The Bears Ears: A Human History of America's Most Endangered Wilderness
David Roberts
E Book, 2021
A personal and historical exploration of the Bears Ears country and the fight to save a national monument.
The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts
E Book, 2015
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.
The Lost World of the Old Ones: Discoveries in the Ancient Southwest
David Roberts
Paperback, 2016
An award-winning author and veteran mountain climber takes us deep into the Southwest backcountry to uncover secrets of its ancient inhabitants.
Into the Great Emptiness: Peril and Survival on the Greenland Ice Cap
David Roberts
Paperback, 2025
The riveting story of one of the greatest but least-known sagas in the history of exploration from David Roberts, the “dean of adventure writing”
Alone on the Wall
Alex Honnold, David Roberts
Hardback, 2015
The life and death-defying feats of Alex Honnold, a visionary climber of the sort that comes along only once in a generation.
Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949-1962
Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem, David M. Shribman
Hardback, 2009
“Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards.”—Robert Graves
Robert Frost: Speaking on Campus: Excerpts from His Talks, 1949-1962
Robert Frost, Edward Connery Lathem, David M. Shribman
E Book, 2009
“Frost was the first American who could be honestly reckoned a master-poet by world standards.”—Robert Graves
The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: The Kennedy Assassination and the Transfer of Power: November 1963-January 1964
Max Holland, Robert David Johnson, David Shreve, Kent B. Germany, Philip D. Zelikow, Ernest May, Timothy Naftali
Three Volume Slipcased Set, 1 3, Paperback, 2005
This is presidential power in its rawest form, revealed alongside the private vulnerabilities of the world's most public man.
The Presidential Recordings: Lyndon B. Johnson: Toward the Great Society: February 1, 1964-May 31, 1964
Kent B. Germany, Robert David Johnson, Guian A. McKee, David Shreve, Ernest May, Timothy Naftali
Three Volume Slipcased Set, 4 6, Hardback, 2007
This is presidential power in its rawest form, revealed alongside the private vulnerabilities of the world's most public man.