Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
Author(s): Lisa Woollett
'A really important book' RAYNOR WINN
From relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London's barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of present-day plastics, Rag and Bone traces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption.
In a series of beachcombing and mudlarking walks - beginning in the Thames in central London, then out to the Kentish estuary and eventually the sea around Cornwall - Lisa Woollett also tells the story of her family, a number of whom made their living from London's waste, and who made a similar journey downriver from the centre of the city to the sea.
A beautifully written but urgent mixture of social history, family memoir and nature writing, Rag and Bone is a book about what we can learn from what we've thrown away - and a call to think more about what we leave behind.
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- : John Murray Press
- : John Murray Publishers Ltd
- : 0.3
- : 31 March 2021
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- : 363.728
- : English
- : 1
- : Paperback
- : Lisa Woollett