by Philipp Vandenberg · Vergara · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789501516975
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«El tesoro de Troya» is the biography of Heinrich Schliemann written by Philipp Vandenberg, published by Vergara in paperback (432 pages, in Spanish).
The book follows Heinrich Schliemann, who amassed a fortune as a merchant and banker before becoming obsessed with finding Troy on the Turkish coast. Through diaries written in twenty languages, self-published books, and thousands of letters, it portrays a man addicted to money and fame, and analyses how the treasure of Priam and its legend became intertwined.
The book was originally published in German as «Der Schatz des Priamos. Wie Heinrich Schliemann sein Troja erfand» (1995); the Spanish translation is by Maria Gregor.
For readers interested in biographies of controversial figures and in the history of archaeology.
