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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 49 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Fiona Hardingham, and Derek Perkins. |
| Summary |
Reimagining the Sutton Hoo dig, the greatest Anglo-Saxon archaeological discovery on British soil, John Preston brilliantly dramatizes three months of intense activity on a small estate when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivalry flourished in equal measure.In the long hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, but on a riverside farm in Suffolk there is excitement of another kind. Mrs. Pretty, a widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As an archaeological dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary find, and the discovery leads to a host of jealousies and tensions.Elegantly crafted with great tenderness and a poignant attention to detail, The Dig is more than a novel about archaeology. At its very core, this is a novel about the traces of life we all leave behind. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Excavations (Archaeology) -- England -- East Anglia -- Fiction.
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Landowners -- England -- East Anglia -- Fiction.
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Widows -- England -- East Anglia -- Fiction.
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Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (England) -- Fiction.
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Vance, Simon, narrator.
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Reading, Kate, narrator.
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Hardingham, Fiona, narrator.
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Perkins, Derek, narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982443887 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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198244388X (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11607968 |
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