The Gold of Troy: The Story of Heinrich Schliemann and the Buried Cities of Ancient Greece Book by Robert Payne

The Story of Heinrich Schliemann & the Buried Cities of Ancient Greece

The eccentric tycoon who set out to uncover buried Troy

Son of a lecherous Mecklenburg pastor he started life as a grocers boy.
He made three fortunes and had an income of £1500000 a year at forty.
In youth he renounced the company of women, making do with hairdressers' wax models examined hungrily through shop windows.
His first wife was a frigid neurotic and his second (selected from a photograph) was only seventeen and took her dolls with her on her honeymoon.

He was cantankerous, litigious and quarrelsome - but he has won lasting fame for his discoveries in the buried cities of Ancient Greece.
His name was Heinrich Schliemann. Here is his extraordinary story.