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Author : Jill Rubalcaba
Release : 2011
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 260/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Digging for Troy by : Jill Rubalcaba
Download or read book Digging for Troy written by Jill Rubalcaba. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the lost city of Troy and the efforts it took to rediscover it.
Author : Laura Amy Schlitz
Release : 2013-02-26
Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 673/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Hero Schliemann by : Laura Amy Schlitz
Download or read book The Hero Schliemann written by Laura Amy Schlitz. This book was released on 2013-02-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.
Author : Peter Ackroyd
Release : 2008-11-11
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 817/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Fall of Troy by : Peter Ackroyd
Download or read book The Fall of Troy written by Peter Ackroyd. This book was released on 2008-11-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Fall of Troy, acclaimed novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd creates a fascinating narrative that follows an archaeologist's obsession with finding the ruins of Troy, depicting the blurred line between truth and deception.Obermann, an acclaimed German scholar, fervently believes that his discovery of the ancient ruins of Troy will prove that the heroes of the Iliad, a work he has cherished all his life, actually existed. But Sophia, Obermann's young Greek wife, has her suspicions about his motivations — suspicions that only increase when she finds a cache of artifacts that her husband has hidden, and when a more skeptical archaeologist dies from a mysterious fever. With exquisite detail, Ackroyd again demonstrates his ability to evoke time and place, creating a brilliantly told story of heroes and scoundrels, human aspirations and follies, and the temptation to shape the truth to fit a passionately held belief.
Author : Eric H. Cline
Release : 2020-03-17
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 323/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Digging Up Armageddon by : Eric H. Cline
Download or read book Digging Up Armageddon written by Eric H. Cline. This book was released on 2020-03-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface : "Welcome to Armageddon"--Prologue : "Have Found Solomon's Stables" - Part I. 1920-1926. "Please Accept My Resignation" - "He Must Knock Off or You Will Bury Him" - "A Fairly Sharp Rap on the Knuckles" - "We Have Already Three Distinct Levels" -- Part II. 1927-1934. "I Really Need a Bit of a Holiday" - "They Can Be Nothing Else Than Stables" - "Admonitory but Merciful" - "The Tapping of the Pickmen" - "The Most Sordid Document" - "Either a Battle or an Earthquake" - Part III: 1935-1939. "A Rude Awakening" -- "The Director is Gone" - "You Asked for the Sensational" - "A Miserable Death Threat" - "The Stratigraphical Skeleton" - Part IV: 1940-2020. "Instructions Had Been Given to Protect This Property" - Epilogue "Certain Digging Areas Remain Incompletely Excavated" -- Cast of Characters: Chicago Expedition Staff and Spouses (alphabetical and with participation dates) - Year by Year List of Chicago Expedition Staff plus Major Events.
Author : Eric H. Cline
Release : 2013-05-30
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 276/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction by : Eric H. Cline
Download or read book The Trojan War: A Very Short Introduction written by Eric H. Cline. This book was released on 2013-05-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a combination of archaeological data, textual analysis, and ancient documents, this Very Short Introduction to the Trojan War investigates whether or not the war actually took place, whether archaeologists have correctly identified and been excavating the ancient site of Troy, and what has been found there.
