The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug for Troy

Anyone with an interest in archaeology or in liars and braggarts will be drawn in by this slim biography of the hyper-imaginative Schliemann. — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books (starred review)

From Newbery Medal-winning author Laura Amy Schlitz comes an engaging illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann, a nineteenth-century archaeologist who most believe did find the ancient city of Troy. This engrossing tale paints a portrait of contradictions — a man at once stingy and lavishly generous, a scholar both shrewd and reckless, a speaker of twenty-two languages and a man with a funny habit of taking liberties with the truth. Laura Amy Schlitz and Robert Byrd open a discussion about how history sometimes comes to be written, and how it sometimes needs to be changed.
Back matter includes source notes and a bibliography.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Schlitz, Laura Amy
Published: 02/26/2013
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763665043
Pages: 72
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d