Look What Came from Russia

by Miles Harvey

Describes many things that originally came from Russia, including inventions, sports and games, food, fashion, musical instruments, animals, arts and crafts, and words

Genres: Geography, Childrens, History, Russia, Nonfiction

31 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Miles Harvey's new book is The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch, which National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick calls a "masterpiece" and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dave Eggers describes as a "ludicrously enjoyable, unputdownable read." It will be published by Little, Brown & Co. in July 2020.

Harvey's previous work includes The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime, a bestseller USA Today named one of the ten best books of 2000, and Painter in a Savage Land: The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America, awarded an Editors’ Choice honor from Booklist, and a best-books citation from The Chicago Tribune. A former Knight-Wallace journalism fellow at the University of Michigan, Harvey teaches creative writing at DePaul University, where he is a founding editor of Big Shoulders Books.

Reviews

[Zaya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not a fan. I would've preferred more facts and numbers.

[Jaguar · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than the other Russia book I read. The descriptions of everything were brief, but informative, and I liked how I didn't have to look up what a certain word means, because he tells you right away. Very good book. Recommended.

[Horace Mann Family Reading Challenge · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book tells you all sorts of things about Russia. There are other sorts of book in this series like China, Italy and Japan. J.