Rag and bone : a family history of what we've thrown away / Lisa Woollett.
Publisher: London : John Murray (Publishers), 2020Description: 230 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 23 cmISBN:- 9781473663961
- 1473663962
- 363.728 23
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Loanable Book | Library | General Collection | 363.728 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000437542 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-216) and index.
"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." - Book cover
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