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David Stuart Roberts

David Stuart Roberts (b. 1943) is a climber, mountaineer, and author of books and articles about climbing, adventure, and survival. He is particularly noted for his books The Mountain of My Fear and Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative, chronicling major ascents in Alaska in the 1960s, which had a major impact on the form of mountaineering literature. Other works include Escape from Lucania; Escape routes; Four against the arctic; Great exploration hoaxes; Iceland, land of the sagas; In search of the Old Ones; Jean Stafford; Moments of doubt; A newer world; No shortcuts to the top; On the ridge between life and death; Once they moved like the wind; Points unknown; The Pueblo Revolt; Sandstone Spine; and, True summit

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  • Cover of: Jean Stafford: a biography

    Cover of edition jeanstaffordbiog00robe Cover of edition jeanstaffordlife0000robe First published in 1988 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: A newer world: Kit Carson, John C. Frémont, and the claiming of the American West

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  • Cover of: Iceland: land of the sagas

    First published in 1990 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: The mountain of my fear.

    First published in 1968 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Moments of doubt and other mountaineering writings

    First published in 1986 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Limits of the known

    First published in 2018 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Points unknown: a century of great exploration

    First published in 2000 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Deborah: a wilderness narrative ; The mountain of my fear

    First published in 2001 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Deborah: a wilderness narrative.

    First published in 1970 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The last of his kind: the life and adventures of Bradford Washburn, America's boldest mountaineer

    First published in 2009 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The lost world of the Old Ones: discoveries in the ancient Southwest

    First published in 2015 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Great exploration hoaxes

    First published in 1982 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Deborah ; and, The mountain of my fear: the early climbs

    First published in 1991 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Escape routes: further adventure writings of David Roberts.

    First published in 1997 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: True summit: what really happened on the legendary ascent of Annapurna

    First published in 2000 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: In search of the old ones: exploring the Anasazi world of the Southwest

    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The mountain of my fear and Deborah: two mountaineering classics

    First published in 2012 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Once they moved like the wind: Cochise, Geronimo, and the Apache wars

    First published in 1993 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Escape from Lucania: an epic story of survival

    First published in 2003 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Sandstone Spine: first traverse of the Comb Ridge

    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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Subjects

Biography, Mountaineering, Mountaineers, Description and travel, History, Explorers, Pueblo Indians, Adventure and adventurers, Antiquities, Indians of north america, antiquities, Biografie, Discovery and exploration, Indians of north america, southwest, new, Southwest, new, antiquities, Travel, Alaska, description and travel, American Authors, American Poets, Ancestral Pueblo culture, Annapurna (nepal), description and travel, Apache Indians, Australasian Antarctic Expedition (1911-1914), Biographie, Colonization, Deborah, Mount (Alaska)

Places

United States, Alaska, Deborah (Mount), Deborah, Mount (Alaska), Huntington (Mount), Mount Huntington, New Southwest, Annapurna, Annapurna (Nepal), France, Grand Gulch Plateau, Grand Gulch Plateau (Utah), Huntington, Mount (Alaska), Huntington, Mount, (Alaska(, Iceland, Mexico, Mount (Alaska) Huntington, Mount Lucania, Nepal, New Mexico, Utah, West (U.S.), Yukon, Yukon Territory

People

David Roberts (1943-), Don Jensen, Bradford Washburn (1910-2007), Cochise Apache chief (d. 1874), Everett Ruess (b. 1914), Geronimo (1829-1909), Jean Stafford, Jean Stafford (1915-), Jean Stafford (1915-1979), John Charles Frémont (1813-1890), Kit Carson (1809-1868), Louis Lachenal (1921-1955), Maurice Herzog (1919-)

Time

20th century, To 1848, 1848-1860, Spanish colony, 1540-1810

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ID Numbers

  • OLID: OL29620A

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November 17, 2019 Edited by M C W Added author bio
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import