Rag and Bone - A Family History of What We've Thrown Away (Hardcover)

'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.

General

Imprint:	John Murray Publishers Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Lisa Woollett
Dimensions:	218 x 142 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	240
ISBN-13:	978-1-4736-6396-1
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > General Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history Books > History > British & Irish history > General Books > History > History of specific subjects > Genealogy, heraldry, names and honours > Family history Promotions
LSN:	1-4736-6396-2
Barcode:	9781473663961

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