Rag and bone : a family history of what we've thrown away /
by Woollett, Lisa.
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BookPublisher: London : John Murray, 2020Description: 230 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (colour), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.ISBN: 9781473663961 (hbk.) :; 1473663962 (hbk.) :.Classification number: 363.728 WOOSubject(s): Woollett, Lisa -- Family | Refuse and refuse disposal -- Great Britain -- History | Environment and ecology | Environment and EcologySummary: 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.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| Book - Adult Hardback | Crosby Library | Adult Non-Fiction | 363.728 WOO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 003096444X |
Includes bibliographical references 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.
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