Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away

di Lisa Woollett (Autore)

John Murray Press, 2020

'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.

• Autore: Lisa Woollett
• Editore: John Murray Press
• Anno: 2020
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 240 p.
• Dimensioni: 218 x 142 mm
• Peso: 400 gr.
• EAN: 9781473663961

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