David Roberts
DAVID ROBERTS is the author of twenty books on mountaineering, adventure, and history. He has written for National Geographic, National Geographic Adventure, and Smithsonian. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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The Will to Climb
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Broadway | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-72043-6 (0-307-72043-8)
October 23, 2012 | $18.00
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Broadway | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-72043-6 (0-307-72043-8)
October 23, 2012 | $18.00
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As a high school student, Ed Viesturs read and was captivated by the French climber Maurice Herzog's famous and grisly account of the first ascent of Annapurna in 1950. When he began his own campaign to climb the world's 14 highest peaks in the late 1980s, Viesturs looked forward with trepidation...
Finding Everett Ruess
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Broadway | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-59177-7 (0-307-59177-8)
June 26, 2012 | $19.00
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Broadway | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-59177-7 (0-307-59177-8)
June 26, 2012 | $19.00
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Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
The Will to Climb
Hardcover | 304 pages | Crown | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-72042-9 (0-307-72042-X)
October 4, 2011 | $30.00
The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach...
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Hardcover | 304 pages | Crown | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-72042-9 (0-307-72042-X)
October 4, 2011 | $30.00
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The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach...
The Will to Climb
eBook | 304 pages | Crown | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-72044-3 (0-307-72044-6)
October 4, 2011 | $13.99
The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach...
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
eBook | 304 pages | Crown | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-72044-3 (0-307-72044-6)
October 4, 2011 | $13.99
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The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach...
The Will to Climb
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-94413-9 (0-307-94413-1)
October 4, 2011 | $23.00
The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-307-94413-9 (0-307-94413-1)
October 4, 2011 | $23.00
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The bestselling author of No Shortcuts to the Top and K2 chronicles his three attempts to climb the world's tenth-highest and statistically deadliest peak, Annapurna in the Himalaya, while exploring the dramatic and tragic history of others who have made -- or attempted – the ascent, and what these exploits teach...
Finding Everett Ruess
Hardcover | 416 pages | Broadway | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-59176-0 (0-307-59176-X)
July 19, 2011 | $28.95
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
Hardcover | 416 pages | Broadway | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-59176-0 (0-307-59176-X)
July 19, 2011 | $28.95
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Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
Finding Everett Ruess
eBook | pages | Broadway | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-59178-4 (0-307-59178-6)
July 19, 2011 | $13.99
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
eBook | pages | Broadway | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-59178-4 (0-307-59178-6)
July 19, 2011 | $13.99
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Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
Finding Everett Ruess
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-94138-1 (0-307-94138-8)
July 19, 2011 | $25.50
Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Nature - Regional; Biography & Autobiography - Adventurers & Explorers; History - United States - State & Local - West (Ak, Ca, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, Wy)
978-0-307-94138-1 (0-307-94138-8)
July 19, 2011 | $25.50
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Finding Everett Ruess by David Roberts, with a foreword by Jon Krakauer, is the definitive biography of the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age 20 have earned him a large and devoted...
K2
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Broadway | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills
978-0-7679-3260-8 (0-7679-3260-9)
August 3, 2010 | $16.99
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement...
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Trade Paperback | 352 pages | Broadway | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills
978-0-7679-3260-8 (0-7679-3260-9)
August 3, 2010 | $16.99
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A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and an
eBook.
K2
eBook | 352 pages | Broadway | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills
978-0-7679-3261-5 (0-7679-3261-7)
October 13, 2009 | $13.99
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement...
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
eBook | 352 pages | Broadway | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills
978-0-7679-3261-5 (0-7679-3261-7)
October 13, 2009 | $13.99
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A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement...
Also available as an
unabridged audiobook download and a
trade paperback.
K2
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills
978-0-7393-8471-8 (0-7393-8471-6)
October 13, 2009 | $27.95
A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Sports & Recreation - Outdoor Skills
978-0-7393-8471-8 (0-7393-8471-6)
October 13, 2009 | $27.95
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A thrilling chronicle of the tragedy-ridden history of climbing K2, the world's most difficult and unpredictable mountain, by the bestselling authors of No Shortcuts to the Top
At 28,251 feet, the world's second-tallest mountain, K2 thrusts skyward out of the Karakoram Range of northern Pakistan. Climbers regard it as the ultimate achievement...
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
No Shortcuts to the Top
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-7679-2471-9 (0-7679-2471-1)
November 27, 2007 | $16.99
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to...
Written by Ed Viesturs and David Roberts
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Broadway | Biography & Autobiography - Personal Memoirs; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-7679-2471-9 (0-7679-2471-1)
November 27, 2007 | $16.99
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to...
Greed, Seeds and Slavery
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Eden Project Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History
978-1-905811-08-3 (1-905811-08-X)
July 24, 2007 | $10.95
A fascinating journey through the true-life tales of slaves around the world and throughout the ages.
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act, this collection of eleven stories follows the lives of slaves of every kind around the world. Moving, exciting and often funny, these true stories...
Trade Paperback | 128 pages | Eden Project Books | Juvenile Nonfiction - History
978-1-905811-08-3 (1-905811-08-X)
July 24, 2007 | $10.95
A fascinating journey through the true-life tales of slaves around the world and throughout the ages.
Commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade Act, this collection of eleven stories follows the lives of slaves of every kind around the world. Moving, exciting and often funny, these true stories...
No Shortcuts to the Top
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-1-4159-3435-7 (1-4159-3435-5)
November 7, 2006 | $23.00
THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to...
Unabridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Sports
978-1-4159-3435-7 (1-4159-3435-5)
November 7, 2006 | $23.00
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THIS GRIPPING AND TRIUMPHANT MEMOIR FOLLOWS A LIVING LEGEND OF EXTREME MOUNTAINEERING AS HE MAKES HIS ASSAULT ON HISTORY, ONE 8,000-METER SUMMIT AT A TIME.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to...
No Shortcuts to the Top
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-7393-3990-9 (0-7393-3990-7)
October 17, 2006 | $21.00
This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to...
Abridged Audiobook Download | pages | Random House Audio | Biography & Autobiography - Sports; Sports & Recreation - Mountaineering
978-0-7393-3990-9 (0-7393-3990-7)
October 17, 2006 | $21.00
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This gripping and triumphant memoir follows a living legend of extreme mountaineering as he makes his assault on history, one 8,000-meter summit at a time.
For eighteen years Ed Viesturs pursued climbing’s holy grail: to stand atop the world’s fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, without the aid of bottled oxygen. But No Shortcuts to...
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