David Roberts
A New York Times best-selling illustrator turns his talents to a lavish history of the women's suffrage movement in the U.K. and the U.S. just in time for the hundredth anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment.
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
His two companions were dead, his food and supplies had vanished in a crevasse, and Douglas Mawson was still one hundred miles from camp.
On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. The dogs were gone. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. A line of poetry gave him the will to
...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 twenty-three-year-old British explorer, led
...4) The last of his kind: the life and adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's boldest mountaineer
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âPlenty of affection, creativity, and raucous older ladies to make readers smile.â âKirkus Reviews
â[A] positive portrayal of diverse kids engaging in various arts and sciences.â âBooklist
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling team Andrea Beaty and David Roberts who created
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