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Rag and Bone - A Family History of What We've Thrown Away (Hardcover)
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Rag and Bone - A Family History of What We've Thrown Away (Hardcover)
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List price R619
Loot Price R503
Discovery Miles 5 030
You Save R116 (19%)
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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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