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LEADER: 02085cam a2200313 i 4500
001 2013950701
003 DLC
005 20150827103748.0
008 130917s2014 nyuab 001 0 eng
010 $a 2013950701
020 $a9780500252000 (cloth)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC$dDLC
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043 $ae-uk-en
050 00 $aDA260$b.P58 2014
082 00 $a942.5/42$223
100 1 $aPitts, Michael W.,$eauthor.
245 10 $aDigging for Richard III :$bthe search for the lost king /$cMike Pitts.
264 1 $aNew York, New York :$bThames & Hudson,$c2014.
300 $a207 pages :$billustrations, maps ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 194-203) and index.
505 0 $aAct I: England, 1452-85 -- Act II: Looking for Richard III -- Scene 1. Leicester. A bridge -- Scene 2. The same. A friary -- Scene 3. The same. A university -- Act III: Excavation in 2012 -- Scene 1. Greyfriars. A car park -- Scene 2. The same. A grave -- Act IV: An autopsy -- Act V: An inquest -- Epilogue: A battlefield, and a burial.
520 $a"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.
600 10 $aRichard$bIII,$cKing of England,$d1452-1485$xDeath and burial.
650 0 $aExcavations (Archaeology)$zEngland$zLeicester.
651 0 $aLeicester (England)$xAntiquities.