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The Hero Schliemann de Laura Amy Schlitz

The Hero Schliemann

Autor Laura Amy Schlitz Ilustrat de Robert Byrd
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 feb 2013 – vârsta până la 12 ani

Ritmul acestei biografii ilustrate este unul alert, marcat de un dialog permanent între faptele istorice și poveștile fantastice pe care Heinrich Schliemann le-a țesut în jurul propriei persoane. Considerăm că The Hero Schliemann nu este doar o relatare cronologică, ci o explorare fascinantă a modului în care se scrie istoria. Subliniem măiestria cu care Laura Amy Schlitz echilibrează portretul unui om care a fost, în egală măsură, un vizionar și un șarlatan. Cititorii tineri, de peste 9-10 ani, vor descoperi un personaj de o complexitate rar întâlnită în literatura pentru copii: un poliglot care stăpânea 22 de limbi, un fanatic al băilor reci în mare și un arheolog amator care a sfidat mediul academic pentru a demonstra că Troia lui Homer nu este doar un mit. Părinții care au citit cu plăcere Schliemann en Nederland de Wout Arentzen vor aprecia și această carte pentru felul în care demontează miturile auto-create ale arheologului, păstrând în același timp entuziasmul pentru descoperirile sale. Față de jurnalele tehnice precum Troy and Its Remains, lucrarea de față transformă datele arheologice într-o aventură narativă accesibilă. Laura Amy Schlitz continuă aici tradiția începută în Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! sau Splendors and Glooms, aceea de a recrea trecutul prin detalii umane vii, dar de data aceasta se ancorează în realitatea secolului al XIX-lea. Ilustrațiile minuțioase ale lui Robert Byrd oferă contextul vizual necesar pentru a înțelege amploarea ambițiilor lui Schliemann, de la palatele sale pseudo-troiene până la praful șantierelor de excavare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780763665043
ISBN-10: 0763665045
Pagini: 80
Dimensiuni: 151 x 228 x 7 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: Candlewick Press (MA)

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte părinților care doresc să le cultive copiilor spiritul critic și pasiunea pentru arheologie. Este o lectură educativă care nu doar prezintă viața unui personaj istoric, ci îi învață pe copii să facă distincția între adevăr și legendă. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă onestă asupra istoriei, înțelegând că marii exploratori au fost oameni plini de defecte, dar mânați de visuri extraordinare.

Despre autor

Laura Amy Schlitz este o renumită autoare americană de literatură pentru copii și bibliotecară la The Park School din Maryland. Recunoscută pentru talentul de a aduce istoria la viață, a primit prestigioasa Medalie Newbery în 2008 pentru Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! și o onoare Newbery în 2013 pentru Splendors and Glooms. Stilul său se remarcă prin rigoarea documentării și capacitatea de a crea voci narative autentice pentru personaje din epoci diferite. În The Hero Schliemann, ea își folosește experiența de povestitor pentru a transforma biografia arheologului german într-o narațiune captivantă despre ambiție și adevăr.

Notă biografică

LAURA AMY SCHLITZ has spent most of her life working as a librarian and professional storyteller. She has also been a playwright, a costumer, and an actress, and her plays for young people have been produced in
professional theaters all over the country. She says, "When I began researching Schliemann's life, I found that he was even more remarkable than I had previously suspected. What a story! Shipwrecks and poverty and wealth and strokes of fantastic life and a Great Love and buried
treasure . . . and it was all true. Then I read more, and discovered that some of it wasn't true. My romantic hero was a mythmaker and a liar. At that point, I was really hooked, because I've always been attracted to people who survive by their imagination."

ROBERT BYRD is currently teaching children's book illustration at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He is the author-illustrator of many books for children, including LEONARDO, BEAUTIFUL DREAMER,
winner of the Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction; FINN MACCOUL AND HIS FEARLESS WIFE; and most recently, THE HERO AND THE MINOTAUR: THE FANTASTIC ADVENTURES OF THESEUS. He says, "I did not want to make Herr Schliemann too serious; I tried to show a sense of humor, adventure, curiosity, courage, and even pomposity. I was particularly conscious of showing a variety of settings that would give the
reader the full scope of his exotic travels."

Extras

When Heinrich began digging at Hissarlik, he had very little idea what he was doing. He knew that he wanted to dig into the mound and find a city of the Bronze Age, but he didn't know what a Bronze Age city would look like. His guide was Homer — he was looking for artifacts and architecture that matched the descriptions in Homer's poetry. This was not a scientific approach.

The thrust of his plan was to dig — deep. At the top of the mound, he expected to find a Roman city, then a Greek city underneath, then a Greek city from the time of Homer, and, just below that, the walled city of The Iliad. Instead of carefully sifting through the mound, layer by layer, he decided to dig out vast trenches — rather as if he were removing slices from a cake. Since Homer's Troy was ancient, Heinrich expected to find it near the bottom.

And so he dug, violently and impatiently. Frank Calvert advised him to proceed with care, to sift through what he was throwing away, but Heinrich was not a cautious man. He whacked away at the mound as if it were a piñata.

Modern archaeologists do not dig like this. They remove the earth gently and keep detailed records of what they find. If they find an artifact that isn't what they're hoping to find, they don't discard the artifact: they change their ideas. Instead of looking for something, they look carefully at whatever comes to light. Heinrich, of course, was looking for Homer's Troy. "Troy . . . was sacked twice," modern archaeologists remark, "once by the Greeks and once by Heinrich Schliemann."

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THE HERO SCHLIEMANN: THE DREAMER WHO DUG FOR TROY by Laura Amy Schlitz, illustrated by Robert Byrd. Text copyright (c) 2006 by Laura Amy Schlitz. Published by Candlewick Press, Inc., Cambridge, MA.

Descriere scurtă

Archaeologist? Mythmaker? Crook? This engaging, illustrated biography of Heinrich Schliemann — a nineteenth-century romantic who most believe did find the ancient city of Troy — reveals him to be a fascinating mixture of all three.

From the time Heinrich Schliemann was a boy — or so he said — he
knew he was destined to dig for lost cities and find buried treasure. And if Schliemann had his way, history books would honor him to this day as one of the greatest archaeologists who ever lived. But a little digging into the life of Schliemann himself reveals that this nineteenth-century self-made man had a funny habit of taking liberties with the truth. Like the famous character of his hero, the poet Homer, Schliemann was a crafty fellow and an inventor of stories, a traveler who had been shipwrecked and stranded and somehow survived. And Heinrich Schliemann was determined to become a legend like Homer — but in his own time.
Following this larger-than-life character from his poor childhood in Germany to his achievement of wealth as a merchant in Russia, from his first haphazard dig for the city of Ilium to his final years living in a pseudo "Palace 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 health fanatic addicted to cold sea baths. Laura Amy Schlitz weaves historical facts among Schliemann's fanciful recollections, while Robert Byrd's illustrations evoke his life and times in wonderful detail. Along the way,
THE HERO SCHLIEMANN gives young readers food for discussion about how history sometimes comes to be written — and how it sometimes needs to be changed.