Scott Ellsworth
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Formats
Description
Housatonic Book Award Winner
Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize
One of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's “15 Books to Help You...
Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction
Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize
One of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” | One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” | One of The Oklahoman's “15 Books to Help You...
2) The world beneath their feet: mountaineering, madness, and the deadly race to summit the Himalayas
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xix, 393 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"While tension steadily rose between European powers in the 1930s, a different kind of battle was raging across the Himalayas. Contingents from Great Britain, Nazi Germany, and the United States had set up rival camps at the base of the mountains, all hoping to become recognized as the fastest, strongest, and bravest climbers in the world. Carried on across nearly the entire sweep of the Himalayas, this contest involved not only the greatest mountain...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The definitive, newsbreaking account of the ongoing investigation into the Tulsa race massacre In the late spring of 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma, erupted into the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. Over the course of sixteen hours, mobs of white men and women looted and burned to the ground a prosperous African American community, known today as Black Wall Street. More than one thousand homes and businesses were destroyed, and...
