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Cargando... Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away (edición 2020)por Lisa Woollett (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This is a fascinating, interesting and beautiful book to read. It has stylish photographs of some of her beach and river-side finds. Although many of these could be described as junk, she arranges them creatively either with a plain background or among pebbles and covered in sand. I found these photographs engrossing. Lisa Woollett's writing too held my interest. She tells the history of London from the perspective of her own ancestors, many of them scavengers for waste and working on the banks of the Thames. She tells the story of these histories through her own experiences of different mudlarking trips along the river and passes on her enthusiasm for the finds she exposes. Her grandfather was a dustman and she travels to the Isle of Sheppey where historic landfill sites are revealing the rubbish of the post-war era. Moving forward in time she beachcombs on Cornish beaches near her home, having no difficulty finding fragments of plastic. She walks the line between entertaining and informative well, adding information about climate change and resource over-use with her family stories and making this a book that is both personal and relatable. A great read. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
'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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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