Scavenging
A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
Lisa Woollett
ISBN: | 9781473663961 |
Publisher: | John Murray |
Published: | 13 June, 2019 |
Format: | Hardcover |
Language: | English |
Links | Hachette |
Scavenging
A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
Lisa Woollett
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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