Rag and Bone

Auteurs

• Lisa Woollett

Paramètres

• 240 pages
• 9 heures de lecture

• Biographies et réflexions
• Écologie et Environnement
• Histoire
• Nonfiction
• Sciences sociales

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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.

Achat du livre

• Année de publication: 2021
• Reliure: (souple)