Digging for Richard Iii

Mike Pitts

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Author
Mike Pitts
Publish Date
2014-11-11
Subtitle
The Search for the Lost King
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
207
Publisher Name
Thames & Hudson
ISBN-10
0500252009
ISBN-13
9780500252000
citemno
177646
Subject
European History
SKU
9780500252000

Description

"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.