Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
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- Synopsis
- 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.(p) 2020 Hodder & Stoughton Ltd
- Copyright:
- 2020
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781529358490
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781473663961
- Publisher:
- John Murray Press
- Date of Addition:
- 09/28/22
- Copyrighted By:
- Lisa Woollett
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Narrated By:
- Karen Cass
- Categories:
- History, Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Outdoors and Nature, Earth Sciences
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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