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Finding the Walls of Troy : Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik
by Allen, Susan Heuck
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- ISBN 10
- 0520208684
- ISBN 13
- 9780520208681
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Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1998 Book. New. Soft cover. First Thus. The relentlessly self-promoting amateur archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann took full credit for discovering Homer's Troy over one hundred years ago, and since then 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 launched his career. Now, at long last, Susan Heuck Allen puts the record straight in this fascinating archaeological adventure that restores the British expatriate Frank Calvert to his rightful place in the story of the identification and excavation of Hisarlk, the site now thought to be Troy as described in the Iliad. Frank Calvert had lived in the Troad--in the northwest corner of Asia Minor--excavating there for fifteen years before Schliemann arrived and learning the local topography well..
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- KALAMOS BOOKS (CA)
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- Title
- Finding the Walls of Troy : Frank Calvert and Heinrich Schliemann at Hisarlik
- Author
- Allen, Susan Heuck
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New New
- Edition
- First Thus
- ISBN 10
- 0520208684
- ISBN 13
- 9780520208681
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Place of Publication
- Berkeley CA
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- EXCAVATIONS ARCHAEOLOGY BIOGRAPHY SCHLIEMANN HEINRICH 1822 1890 TROY EXTINCT CITY ARCHAEOLOGISTS HISSARLIK FRANK CALVERT
- Bookseller catalogs
- Archaeology; Turkey; Trojan War/Troy;
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