David Roberts
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En 1965, quatre jeunes étudiants de Harvard se lancent à l'assaut du spectaculaire mont Huntington, décrit comme le joyau caché de l'Alaska et l'une des plus belles montagnes au monde. Leur objectif est de tenter ce qui paraissait jusqu'alors impossible car beaucoup trop dangereux: gravir une véritable grande paroi en Alaska. La Montagne de ma peur est le récit de cette ascension par l'un des quatre membres de l'expédition. Mais il raconte...
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Are you tired of never getting an interview after applying for a job? Do you feel that if you could just get an interview you would do fine and be successful? If either is true, then help is at hand. This brand new book "How to Write a Cover Letter for Job Applications" is the real deal. This is one guide that does not mess with your career aspirations - it tells you the truth and what you really need to do to get to the interview room. Discover how...
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This book relates to one of Wales's most important institutions of higher education, covering its history from its creation in 1884 as the University College of North Wales, its incarnation as the University of Wales, Bangor and to its 125th anniversary in 2009. The book traces the institution's origins as an 18th century coaching inn with just 58 students to its current status as an institution enjoying multi-million pound investment in staff and...
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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 the Trump administration 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,...
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Everest and K2—two of the most feared and respected peaks in the world. High offers a unique perspective on climbing these two peaks, from early exploration disasters, to the modern tragedies. With writing from Matt Dickinson, Chris Bonington, David Roberts and others, these stories remind us, in vivid written accounts, why Everest and K2 are among the world’s most dangerous places, yet why the world’s best climbers can’t stay away from them....
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"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...
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In July 1776 a pair of Franciscan friars, Francisco Atanasio Domínguez and Silvestre Vélez de Escalante, were charged by the governor of New Mexico with discovering a route across the unknown Southwest to the new Spanish colony in California. They had other goals as well, some of them secret: converting the indigenous natives along the way to the true faith, discovering a semi-mythical paradise known as Teguayó, hunting for sources of gold and...
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An exuberant, hands-on fly-on-the-wall account that combines the thrill of canyoneering and rock climbing with the intellectual sleuthing of archaeology to explore the Anasazi. David Roberts describes the culture of the Anasazi-the name means "enemy ancestors" in Navajo-who once inhabited the Colorado Plateau and whose modern descendants are the Hopi Indians of Arizona. Archaeologists, Roberts writes, have been puzzling over the Anasazi for more than...
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"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." By 1930, no place in the world was less well explored than Greenland. The native Inuit had occupied the relatively accessible west coast for centuries. The east coast, however, was another story. In August 1930, Henry George Watkins (nicknamed Gino), a 23-year-old explorer, led thirteen scientists and...
13) Easytimes
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The erection of a new retirement village in suburban Adelaide is proceeding well and an eclectic mix of retirees take up residence as the well-appointed retirement units become available. The kind of carefree, comfortably relaxed lifestyle that retirees look forward to is soon established and friendships are forged. There is even some late blooming romance.
However, after a few months, strange and unpleasant things start to happen in the village apparently...
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Chris Jay centers on a foster care child who is adopted by his aunt and uncle in Logan Heights, Chicago. After being a victim of a freak accident at a corporate testing site, Christopher's body is genetically altered, giving him uncommon abilities. To his surprise, Christopher will discover and master his abilities, which will enable him to overcome powerful enemies and genetically altered villains. Throughout his journey, he will rely heavily on...
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The Expeditious Chris Jay centers on Christopher Miller Jackson establishing himself as Chicago, Illinois' finest new superhero. But Christopher is tested harder than ever before when he must save the city from Syncope, a lab creation by the mafia called The Hidden Hand who's on a mission to overrun the city with Abnormals!
16) Graham's Story
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This is the story of Graham, a nine-year-old lad living in country New South Wales around 1960. Life on the family farm is far from idyllic for Graham though, as he is confronted by a series of challenges; dealing with the realization that he has, been adopted, a difficult relationship with his philandering father and the tragic decline of the health of his much, adored younger sister.
And then, there is the discovery of a mysterious man living like...
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275 pages ; 23 cm
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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.