The Hero Schliemann: The Dreamer Who Dug For Troy
by Laura Amy Schlitz
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"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 show more 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.
. Biography & Autobiography. Juvenile Nonfiction. Reference. History. show less
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This is a very unique but fitting style of biography for a book about Heinrich Schliemann. Schlitz challenges many of the claims Schliemann made about his own life. She shows that people often exaggerate details so that they look better to other people. I loved how the illustrations were both humorous and informatory.
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Archaeology
biography of an "archaeologist"
History of Troy
History of Homer, Illiad, Odessey
Study the places and people mentioned in the book
History of Greece
This is a very unique but fitting style of biography for a book about Heinrich Schliemann. Schlitz challenges many of the claims Schliemann made about his own life. She shows that people often exaggerate details so that they look better to other people. I loved how the illustrations were both humorous and informatory.
Curriculum Connections:
Archaeology
biography of an "archaeologist"
History of Troy
History of Homer, Illiad, Odessey
Study the places and people mentioned in the book
History of Greece
Biographical tale of an archeologist, who was less interested in the science and more in making a name for himself. Full of interesting trivia.
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Laura Amy Schlitz is the writer of the 2008 Newbery Medal-winning Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from the Medieval Village and the 2013 Newbery Medal-winning Spendors and Glooms. (Bowker Author Biography)
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- Heinrich Schliemann
- Dedication
- For my parents, who nourished my dreams L.A.S.
To Ginger R.B. - First words
- Almost two hundred years ago, in Germany, a boy scratched his initials on a linden tree.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Storyteller, archaeologist, and crook---Heinrich Schliemann left his mark upon the world.
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