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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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- Jaar van publicatie
- 2021
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- Titel
- Rag and Bone
- Taal
- Engels
- Auteurs
- Lisa Woollett
- Uitgever
- John Murray Press
- Jaar van publicatie
- 2021
- Formaat
- Paperback
- Aantal pagina's
- 240
- ISBN10
- 1473663989
- ISBN13
- 9781473663985
- Reeks
- Tags
- Non-fictie, Sociale Wetenschappen, Historisch thema, Waargebeurde verhalen, Biographies, Wetenschap en Wiskunde, Ecologische thematiek, Britse Literatuur, Ecologie, Sociologie
- Beoordeling
- 4,15 van 5
- Aantekening
- 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.