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The Dig

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Informationen zum Autor John Preston Klappentext 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 Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the strange mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds against a background of mounting national anxiety, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find ... And pretty soon the discovery leads to all kinds of jealousies and tensions. John Preston's recreation of the Sutton Hoo dig - the greatest Anglo-Saxon discovery ever in Britain - brilliantly and comically dramatizes three months of intense activity when locals fought outsiders, professionals thwarted amateurs, and love and rivaly flourished in equal measure Zusammenfassung 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 Petty, the widowed farmer, has had her hunch proved correct that the mounds on her land hold buried treasure. As the dig proceeds, it becomes clear though that this is no ordinary find.

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Authors John Preston
Publisher Penguin Books Uk
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback
Released 29.05.2008
 
EAN 9780141016382
ISBN 978-0-14-101638-2
No. of pages 240
Dimensions 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature

FICTION / Sagas, Suffolk, FICTION / Small Town & Rural, c 1930 to c 1939, c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period)

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