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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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070000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file CD audio rda |
| 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. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
| Performer |
Read by Simon Vance, Kate Reading, Fiona Hardingham, and Derek Perkins. |
| Summary |
In the long, hot summer of 1939, Britain is preparing for war, and Mrs. Pretty, the widowed owner of a farm, has had her hunch confirmed that the mounds on her land hold the famed Sutton Hoo treasure. |
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Requires Boundless App. |
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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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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Landowners. |
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Widows. |
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Sutton Hoo Ship Burial (England) -- Fiction.
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England -- East Anglia. |
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England -- Sutton Hoo Ship Burial. |
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Biographical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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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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| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Preston, John, 1953- Dig [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone, [2016] 9781504689960 9781504689946 (NjBwBT)bl2016021835 (OCoLC)929986317 |
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9781504689908 : $47.95 |
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1504689909 : $47.95 |
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