Michael Wood

La milenaria historia de una civilización y un pueblo China es una de las civilizaciones más antiguas de la Tierra, pero sus cuatro milenios de historia son muy poco conocidos en Occidente. Michae

Este magnífico libro examina la leyenda de Troya y nos hace evocar vívidamente episodios centrales los temas que son centrales para la búsqueda del pasado de nuestra civilización. New York Times Book Review A lo largo de los siglos los mitos que se refieren a la guerra de Troya y a sus protagonistas -Aquiles, Héctor, Elena…-, transmitidos desde la Ilíada por una numerosa secuencia de recreaciones literarias, han mantenido viva su fascinación. Sólo cuando Heinrich Schliemann pretendió hacia 1873 haber descubierto el "tesoro de Príamo" y las ruinas de Troya en Hisarlik, en la actual Turquía, comenzó a pensarse en la posibilidad de que los acontecimientos narrados por Homero tuviesen una base histórica. Michael Wood nos narra en estas páginas la crónica milenaria de la búsqueda de Troya, prestando especial atención a las excavaciones de las últimas décadas, hasta el hallazgo en Besik Tepe de lo que los antiguos creían que era la tumba de Aquiles, y de un cementerio con restos de cremaciones, en lo que se supone que es la posible localización del campamento de los sitiadores de Troya.

More than two millennia ago, Alexander the Great changed the course of human history in an astonishingly short time: He acceded to the throne of Macedon at the age of just 20, and by the time he was 30 he had conquered the known world. At 32 he was dead. His 22,000-mile journey to India and back opened up connections between the East and West, and even today its traces can be found throughout Asia-- in cultures, legends, place names and traditions. Filmmaker and journalist Michael Wood has retraced Alexander's journey--by car, horse, camel, boat and even on foot-- resulting in the engaging In the Footsteps of Alexander. (He travelled with a small, hardy film crew, and together they also produced a PBS documentary of the same name.) Wood's text vividly brings Alexander's times to life, as he mixes accounts of his own adventures and encounters with the story of Alexander's journey. Accompanying the text is a well-chosen assortment of maps, photographs and reproductions of artwork and artefacts. Alexander aficionados and neophytes alike will find much to inform and delight them in this handsome volume.

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