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Rag and Bone
- A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
- Narrated by: Karen Cass
- Length: 6 hrs and 27 mins
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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 about what we can learn from what we've thrown away - and a call to think more about what we leave behind.
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- chris white
- 10-09-22
Endlessly fascinating
A more insightful take on “ Mudlarking” going deeply into the environmental effects of the disposal of man made products. Lots of fascinating
facts wrapped around an interesting storyline and well worth a listen, l will go on to seek out the other writing’s of Lisa Woolley.
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- Teddy_Ed
- 17-07-20
Boring and monotonous
Struggled to the end of chapter 2 and gave up. This book is dull, dull, dull. I’ll be requesting a refund.
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