Miles Harvey: 3 books
Painter in a Savage Land
The Strange Saga of the First European Artist in North America
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2008
In this vibrantly told, meticulously researched book, Miles Harvey reveals one of the most fascinating and overlooked lives in American history. Like The Island of Lost Maps, his bestselling book about a legendary map thief, Painter in a Savage Land is a compelling search into the mysteries of the...
The Island of Lost Maps
A True Story of Cartographic Crime
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2010
The Island of Lost Maps tells the story of a curious crime spree: the theft of scores of valuable centuries-old maps from some of the most prominent research libraries in the United States and Canada. The perpetrator was Gilbert Joseph Bland, Jr., an enigmatic antiques dealer from South Florida, whose...
by Miles Harvey
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
About How Long Will I Cry?: Voices of Youth Violence:In 2011 and 2012, while more than 900 people were being murdered in Chicago, creative-writing students from DePaul University fanned out all over the city to interview people whose lives have been changed by the bloodshed. The result is this extraordinary...