{"product_id":"9781473663961-rag-and-bone","title":"Rag and Bone","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Family History of What We've Thrown Away\u003cbr\u003eA brilliantly written combination of family memoir, social history and nature writing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A really important book' RAYNOR WINN\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom 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, \u003ci\u003eRag and Bone \u003c\/i\u003etraces the story of our rubbish, and, through it, our history of consumption.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA beautifully written but urgent mixture of social history, family memoir and nature writing, \u003ci\u003eRag and Bone \u003c\/i\u003eis a book about what we can learn from what we've thrown away - and a call to think more about what we leave behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40944747970657,"sku":"9781473663961","price":17.47,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27943007.jpg?v=1722182002","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781473663961-rag-and-bone","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}