Bury Me Standing
by Isabel Fonseca | 
Alone on the Ice
by David Roberts | 
The First Americans
by James Adovasio | 
The Harmless People
by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas |
Once They Moved Like The Wind
by David Roberts |
The Lost World of the Kalahari
by Laurens Van Der Post | 
Atlas of a Lost World
by Craig Childs | 
In Europe
by Geert Mak | 
A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World
by Tony Horwitz | 
Landmarks
by Robert Macfarlane | 
Cities of Gold
by Douglas Preston |
South with Endurance
by Frank Hurley |
Foreign Devils on the Silk Road
by Peter Hopkirk | 
The Fourth Part of the World
by Toby Lester | 
Amsterdam
by Russell Shorto | 
In Search of the Indo-Europeans
by J. P. Mallory | 
Heaven's Command: An Imperial Progress
by Jan Morris | 
Pax Britannica
by Jan Morris |
Europe Between the Oceans
by Barry Cunliffe | 
The Discovery of France
by Graham Robb |
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 a century, trying to determine the environmental and cultural stresses that caused their society to collapse 700 years ago. He guides us through controversies in the historical record, among them the haunting question of whether the Anasazi committed acts of cannibalism. Roberts's book is full of up-to-date thinking on the culture of the ancient people who lived in the harsh desert country of the Southwest.