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

Zusatztext Subtle, lyrical and funny Informationen zum Autor Lisa Woollett's family have found value in what is thrown away for generations - her great-grandfather was a scavenger and her grandfather was a dustman, while she herself has been a beachcomber all her life, and in recent years has taken photographs of her beach and river finds. She is the author of two award-winning photography books about the sea, and Rag and Bone won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction. She has lived in Cornwall with her family since 2004, in a house shared with buckets and boxes of shore finds. Klappentext A brilliantly written combination of family memoir, social history and nature writing.A brilliantly written combination of family memoir, social history and nature writing. Zusammenfassung '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.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Woollett, Woollett Lisa
• Publisher: John Murray
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2020
• EAN: 9781473663961
• ISBN: 978-1-4736-6396-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 142 mm x 218 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Cornwall, London, Greater London, City of London, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, NATURE / Ecosystems & Habitats / Rivers, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, British & Irish history, Pollution & threats to the environment, Family history, tracing ancestors, Pollution and threats to the environment, The Thames