Publisher:
Berkeley: University of California Press, (1999).
Seller ID: 9108gcs
Octavo, brown cloth (hardcover), silver letters, xiii, 409 pp. Fine, in a Fine, mylar protected dust jacket. From dust jacket: The relentlessly self-promoting Heinrich Schliemann took entire credit for discovering Homer's Troy. For over one hundred years that credit has been accorded to him, and generations have thrilled to the tale of his ambitions and achievements. But Schliemann gained this status as an archaeological hero partly by deliberately eclipsing the man who had guided him. Now at long last Susan Heuck Allen puts the record straight, and restores the British archaeologist Fra... View More...
