Rag and Bone
A Family History of What We've Thrown Away
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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.
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- R Tily
- 23-12-24
Step away from the bustle for a mudlarking stomp - the most beautiful book I have listened to in ages
Step away from the bustle for a quiet, thoughtful, mudlarking stomp in the company of a seasoned beachcomber and masterful storyteller – a wonderful gift for yourself or a loved one.
Companiable and meticulously researched, Woollett leads us quietly along the shorelines of our lives and those of our ancestors. The author’s accounts are arresting – reflecting a photographer’s keen eye, the bright narrative of a talented storyteller, and the playful enthusiasm of a child exploring shoreline stomping grounds.
This book’s narrative is built on years of low tide forays - chilly weed and debris strewn shores and equally dogged digital trawling. This atmosphere is preserved in written form - each fragment of the past curated with a lightness of touch. Yet the result is a book where each passage glistens like a ribbon of freshly deposited treasures on a bright morning shore.
This is the most beautiful book I have listened to or read in a long while.
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- chris white
- 10-09-22
Endlessly fascinating
A more insightful take on “ Mudlarking” going deeply into the environmental effects of the disposal of man made products. Lots of fascinating
facts wrapped around an interesting storyline and well worth a listen, l will go on to seek out the other writing’s of Lisa Woolley.
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- Teddy_Ed
- 17-07-20
Boring and monotonous
Struggled to the end of chapter 2 and gave up. This book is dull, dull, dull. I’ll be requesting a refund.
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