Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
- ISBN-10
- 1473663989
- ISBN-13
- 9781473663985
- Series
- Rag and Bone
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2021-02-04
- Publisher
- John Murray
- Author
- Lisa Woollett
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.
