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Rag and Bone: A History of What We've Thrown Away

Autor Lisa Woollett
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 feb 2021
'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book' RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path

Lisa Woollett has spent her life combing beaches and mudlarking, collecting curious fragments of the past: from Roman tiles and Tudor thimbles, to Victorian buttons and plastic soldiers.

In a series of walks from the Thames, out to the Kentish estuary and eventually to Cornwall, she traces the history of our rubbish and, through it, reveals the surprising story of our changing consumer culture.

Timely and beautifully written, Rag and Bone shows what we can learn from what we've thrown away and urges us to think more about what we leave behind.
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ISBN-13: 9781473663985
ISBN-10: 1473663989
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 128 x 196 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: John Murray Press
Colecția John Murray
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

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Lisa Woollett's beautifully descriptive language intertwines the stories of the river's history with that of her family, like a muddy journey through time. But it's so much more than that - in recording the waste and the lives we've left behind she's given us a chance to change our ways and possibly head towards a cleaner future
Wonderful . . . If you loved The Salt Path, you'll love this book. A glorious celebration of where the natural world meets the human (and the messes we make)
Rag and Bone digs deep into the mud of the Thames estuary, and comes up with something compelling and urgent - history told through rubbish. Lisa Woollett is a genuine mudlark, alert and closely attuned to the ways of the intertidal zone. A fascinating book
A delicious confection of a book, blending history and memoir with thoughts and close observation. I so enjoyed watching shadows of the past flit across Lisa Woollett's watery pages. It is a timely book, too, when, as Woollett writes, "our waste threatens to overwhelm us"
Tracing the remote and recent past - her own, and ours - through watery debris, Lisa Woollett conjures up, in poetic prose and brilliant stories, the spin cycle of history. In Rag and Bone, she elegantly picks her way through the trash, to reveal something gloriously and richly strange: a portrait of what we were and what we might become
Mudlark and beachcomber Lisa Woollett journeys into her family's past, our collective history and our possible futures. Subtle, dark and funny, with flashes of beauty and wonder, Rag and Bone is a compelling meditation on the consumer culture and its consequences
Entrancing
Lisa Woollett spins narrative gold out of literal dross in this gorgeous story of our waterways that lulls you like a punt on the Cam before making you seasick at the damage we've wrought on the oceans
Absorbing . . . Woollett has a gift for bringing to life the strange borderlands of the foreshore
Discursive, lyrical and intriguing . . . Woollett writes beautifully
Rag and Bone is more than a history in a hundred objects: it is a meditation on our relationship with objects themselves
[A] beguiling blend of memoir, nature writing and social history
More than personal memoir, this is a powerful book that has much to say about the present and future state of our world
Woollett weaves the story of her own London family within the wider social history of recycling . . . the book is illustrated with photographs of her finds arranged in ways that often say as much as the words do about the subject matter
A constant delight . . . highly recommended
Accompanied by the fantastically beautiful photographs of her finds, Woollett . . . traces her own family history in poetic prose
[Woollett's] mudlarking (preferred tool: a butter knife) reveals no end of social history washed up on the shore and awaiting interpretation
Subtle, lyrical and funny