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Cargando... London in Fragments: A Mudlark's Treasures (2016)por Ted Sandling
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This book is so well written and produced. The hardcover contains glossy plates, at least a hundred or more. Each has text about the item, the author's experience, and it's history. It had me ready to go mudlarking, for one problem: I live in the US. Ah well, this is second best. It helps to look at pictures of the Thames riverbank to gain a sense of the place, which is easily accessible due to stairways cut into the walls - not for mudlarking, but for river-crossing taxis that once existed before the modern bridges were built. An ancient vestige of the city repurposed. It seems possible to pick the mud clean with enough time and hands, but the author seems unconcerned. I listened to the audiobook which improves the text, very well done. While also paging through a copy of the book, which is kind of required; the author visually describes each piece but they are of such unusual shape and pattern the pictures help. This was an extremely nicely produced book in which a "mudlarker" or collector of items from the Thames, lays out some of his treasures and tells us all about them. The book was quite expensive, although a very beautiful copy, and I think I might have liked something just a little more chatty and personal myself. However, I have given it five stars because I think it succeeds in what it sets out to do, which is to inspire anyone interested in history to consider the unconsidered trifles that our ancestors threw away. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
'A beautiful book.' Daily Mail 'Exhilaratingly curious.' Evening Standard 'Gripping.' Spectator 'Brilliant.' Penelope Lively 'Indefatigably researched.' Country Life 'Beautifully illustrated.' Monocle Mudlarking, the act of searching the Thames foreshore for items of value, has a long tradition in England's capital. In the late 18th and 19th centuries, mudlarks were small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Today's mudlarks unearth relics of the past from the banks of the Thames which tell stories of Londoners throughout history. From Roman tiles to elegant Georgian pottery, presented here are modern-day mudlark Ted Sandling's most evocative finds, gorgeously photographed. Together they create a mosaic of everyday London life through the centuries, touching on the journeys, pleasures, vices, industries, adornments and comforts of a world city. This unique and stunning book celebrates the beauty of small things, and makes sense of the intangible connection that found objects give us to the individuals who lost them. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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Recently I've enjoyed reading books written by successful mudlarks. The topic is so great because it allows authors to weave together social history, psychogeography, and memoir, all focused on my favorite city in the world. I very much enjoyed both this book and Laura Maiklem's "Mudlarking" which I read last year. They are very different but both use the found objects in creative ways to tell stories about London's history. In this book, I liked particularly Sandling's sensitive connection of his treasures not just to local but also to global histories of trade, consumption, slavery, and imperialism. Recommended! ( )