The Hero Schliemann
Laura Amy Schlitz
Candlewick Press
<p>Archaeologist? Mythmaker? Crook? This engaging, illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann&#8212;a nineteenth-century romantic who most believe did find the ancient city of Troy&#8212;reveals him to be a fascinating mixture of all three.<p>From the time Heinrich Schliemann was a boy&#8212;or so he said&#8212;he knew he was destined to dig for lost cities and find buried treasure. And if Schliemann had his way, history books would honor him to this day as one of the greatest archaeologists who ever lived. But a little digging into the life of Schliemann himself reveals that this nineteenth-century self-made man had a funny habit of taking liberties with the truth. Like the famous character of his hero, the poet Homer, Schliemann was a crafty fellow and an inventor of stories, a traveler who had been shipwrecked and stranded and somehow survived. And Heinrich Schliemann was determined to become a legend like Homer&#8212;but in his own time. Following this larger-than-life...</p></p>