Miles Harvey





Miles Harvey

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Harvey is an American journalist and author who writes for Outside Magazine, and whose national and international bestseller, The Island of Lost Maps, was named one of the top ten books of 2000 by USA Today and the Chicago Sun-Times.

An adventure-seeker with a passion for exploration and discovery, Harvey won a 2004-2005 Illinois Arts Council Award for prose and a 2007-2008 Knight-Wallace fellowship at the University of Michigan. In the fall of 2009, he will begin teaching creative writing at DePaul University in Chicago.

Publishers Weekly says his latest book, Painter In A Savage Land, "hits the sweet spot for both adventure buffs and history fans."


Average rating: 3.63 · 883 ratings · 175 reviews · 26 distinct works
The Island of Lost Maps: A ...
3.6 of 5 stars 3.60 avg rating — 806 ratings — published 2000 — 12 editions
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3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2008 — 4 editions
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Look What Came From Ireland
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2002 — 2 editions
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The Drought
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Look What Came from China
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions
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Look What Came from Mexico
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Look What Came from Africa
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Look What Came from Italy
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1998 — 2 editions
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The Fall Of The Soviet Union
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Look What Came from Japan
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“He was blessed with the sort of intense curiosity that most of us experience so infrequently it often seems to come as a surprise. I’m not talking about the kind of curiosity that INVITES but about the kind that DEMANDS, not about the kind that says I WONDER but the kind that says I MUST KNOW. The kind that makes you immerse yourself in a subject, ponder it over and over until you are able to make sense of it for others and, in so doing, give your own life new meaning in some small way. Under such a spell, humans can accomplish the extraordinary.”
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