Rag and Bone
A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
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Rag and Bone
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Narrated by:
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Karen Cass
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By:
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Lisa Woollett
About this listen
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.
©2020 Lisa Woollett (P)2020 Hodder & Stoughton LtdWhat listeners say about Rag and Bone
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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- Anonymous User
- 25-07-2021
Wonderful and engaging
A wonderful journey along the Thames, through the history of the things that have been discarded and dumped in the river. Completely absorbing.
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