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- 240 pages
- 9 hours of reading
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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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Rag and Bone, Lisa Woollett
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- Released
- 2021
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- Title
- Rag and Bone
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Lisa Woollett
- Publisher
- John Murray Press
- Released
- 2021
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1473663989
- ISBN13
- 9781473663985
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, Science & Math, Environmental Themes, Ecology, Sociology, British Literature
- Rating
- 4.15 out of 5
- Description
- 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.