Look What Came from Egypt

by Miles Harvey

Describes many familiar inventions, foods, customs, tools, toys and games, fashions, and more that originated in ancient Egypt

Genres: History, Nonfiction, Childrens, Geography

Paperback

First published September 1, 1998

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

[Karen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read for CC1 wk2 (even though we read it during wk3). Mom rated 4 stars, Ellie and Jacob 3 stars. Lot's of good factual info in this book.

[Jc · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read the issue about Mexico and decided to read the others I could find. I found the information fascinating and very interesting.

[Jaguar · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really good. I want to try the Egyptian breakfast recipe called Ful medames, (pronounced fool meh-DAH-mes.) The ingredients are: (16 ounce can) fava beans, 1 tomato, 1 onion, (1 & 1/2 tablespoons) olive oil, (1 teaspoon) cumin powder, (1 small bunch) parsley, 2 lemons, and 1 package of pita bread.