Gold of Troy. Autobiography
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Gold of Troy. Autobiography
29.99 €
23.99 €
This book from the Great Journeys series introduces a unique personality to the modern Russian reader — the great archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890). Almost a century and a half has passed since the 42-year-old millionaire and successful businessman closed his firm to devote all his strength, money and passion to realizing the dream of his hungry childhood — to find the legendary Troy lost in the centuries. Schliemann was awarded so many epithets during his lifetime and after: he was called a great discoverer, a brilliant visionary, an adventurer, a mystifier and an archaeological businessman. Very few can compare with Heinrich Schliemann in the scale of his archaeological and historical discoveries. Brilliant organizational skills, literary talent, a passion for travel, faith in his own luck, a large share of adventurism, a penchant for mystification — all of this was inherent in him in full measure. But the most important thing is that Troy, Mycenae, Tiryns, Orchomenus, discovered and explored by Schliemann, became America and Australia, the North and South Poles, great straits that connected civilizations: the Antiquity sung by Homer and other authors and our time. Now the domestic reader has the opportunity to get acquainted with the life of this great traveler in time and space from the first person: for the first time, Schliemann's autobiography has been translated into Russian. The book, like all publications in the "Great Journeys" series, is richly illustrated with unique photographs and documentary materials, and is provided with extensive biographical commentary.
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- All books by the publisher
- All books by the author
- All books in the series Great Journeys