{"product_id":"9780715632789","title":"Digging the Dirt The Archaeological Imagination","description":"\u003ch1\u003eDigging the Dirt\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eThe Archaeological Imagination\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eJennifer Wallace\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Collections \/ Ancient \u0026amp; Classical\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen Jennifer Wallace travelled round Greece as a student, hiking through olive groves to hunt out the stones of old temples and lost cities, she became fascinated by archaeology. It was magical. It was absurd. Give an archaeologist a few rocks and, like a master storyteller, he could bring another world to life. Give him a vague hunch about the past, and he was prepared to spend hours raking through the soil in search of proof. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the plain of Troy to the Titanic, and from Britain's Stonehenge to Ground Zero in New York, \u003ci\u003eDigging the Dirt\u003c\/i\u003e explores the excavation sites that have exerted the strongest pull on the public imagination. Some sites, in which bones are indistinguishable from dust, have driven archaeologists to despair. Other sites haunt poets with memories of loss and romance. All reveal the relevance of archaeology to our deepest cultural anxieties. Passionate and intelligent, \u003ci\u003eDigging the Dirt \u003c\/i\u003eengages with the work of philosophers and writers who have been stirred by the life below the ground, while never losing sight of the pressing demands of archaeologists today.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJennifer Wallace\u003c\/b\u003e is Lecturer in English Literature, and a Fellow of Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge. UK. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eShelley and Greece: Rethinking Romantic Hellenism\u003c\/i\u003e (1997), \u003ci\u003eLives of the Great Romantics: Keats \u003c\/i\u003e(1997), and joint editor of \u003ci\u003eConsuming Passions: Food in the Age of Anxiety\u003c\/i\u003e (1998).\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e25 June 2004\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBristol Classical Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9780715632789\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e192\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e11.68\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51370201055372,"sku":"9780715632789","price":33.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_c531298f-efbb-433d-93e2-e95ab7ec560c.jpg?v=1783881801","url":"https:\/\/fh90cf-fv.myshopify.com\/products\/9780715632789","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}