Rag and Bone

A Family History of What We've Thrown Away

Gebonden EN 2020 9781473663961
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'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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ISBN13:9781473663961
Taal:EN
Bindwijze:Gebonden
Aantal pagina's:240
Uitgever:John Murray Press
Thema:
1DDU-GB-ESLF Londen (stad)
1DDU-GB-ESZT Theems
1DDU-GB-EWC Cornwall

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