Zoloto Troi (448 stranits) - Shliman G.

This book in the series "Great Travelers" presents a unique personality to the modern Russian reader - the great archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (1822-1890).
Since the 42-year-old millionaire, a successful businessman closed his firm to give all the strength, money and passion to realize the dream of his hungry childhood - to find lost in the centuries the legendary Troy, it has been almost a century and a half. What only epithets did not award Schliemann in his life and after: he was called a great discoverer, and a brilliant visionary, and an adventurer, and a hoaxer, and a businessman from archaeology.
On the scale of archaeological and historical discoveries with Heinrich Schliemann can be compared to very few. Ingenious organizational abilities, literary talent, passion for travel, faith in his luck, a large share of adventurism, a penchant for hoaxes - all this was inherent to him to the fullest. But most importantly, the open and researched by Schliemann Troy, Mycenae, Tyrinth, Orhomen became for humanity America and Australia, the North and South Poles, the great straits connecting civilizations: sung by Homer and other authors Antiquity and our It's time.
Now the domestic reader has an opportunity to get acquainted with the life of this great traveler in time and space in the first person: for the first time Schliemann's autobiography was translated into Russian. The book, like all editions of the series "Great Journeys", is richly illustrated with unique photos and documentary materials, with extensive biographical comments.