Bibliograph

Digging for Richard III, the search for the lost king, Mike Pitts

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Digging for Richard III, the search for the lost king, Mike Pitts

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index

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contains biographical information

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Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Digging for Richard III

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

893566157872705173

Responsibility statement

Mike Pitts

Sub title

the search for the lost king

Summary

"The events of Richard III's reign and his death in 1485 at the Battle of Bosworth are known worldwide through Shakespeare's most performed, filmed and translated history play. Digging for Richard III is the page-turning story of how his grave was found, the people behind the discovery and what it tells us. It is the first complete narrative of a project that blended passion, science, luck and detection. Told by a noted archaeologist with access to all the parties involved, it follows the quest from an idea born in an Edinburgh bookshop to the day, fourteen years later, when two archaeologists carefully raised the bones from a car park in Leicester, and the scientific studies that resulted."--Book jacket

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Digging for Richard the Third

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