# Rag and Bone

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- Book: [Rag and Bone](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-woollett/rag-and-bone) ([Rag and Bone.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-woollett/rag-and-bone.md))
- Authors: [Lisa Woollett](https://www.bookquiver.com/lisa-woollett)
- Publisher: john_murray
- ISBN: 978-14-7366-396-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2020-07-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

'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.