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Rag and Bone
Rag and Bone: A Family History of What We've Thrown Away | Lisa Woollett
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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.
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Lisa Woollett is a beachcomber and award-winning photographer. This thoughtful book (structured around mudlarking on the Thames and beachcombing in Cornwall) combines her family history with the history of consumption and the effect that waste is having on nature. However it‘s a shame that Woollett never really explains why she‘s so fascinated by mudlarking/beachcombing or why she regards certain objects as treasure and others as waste.

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I have 8 prompts left to fulfill for #booked2021 (eek) but I am determined to get there. This will be the first time I will have managed to complete a reading challenge, which is definitely in part because of the wonderful encouragement of @Cinfhen @BarbaraTheBibliophage & @4thhouseontheleft and the lovely community around this challenge. These are the physical books I have which leaves me with 4 still to find! Musical instrument cover rec anyone?

rockpools It‘s a teensy musical instrument- but the book‘s fab! 3y
Cinfhen I was going to recommend that book too @rockpools !!! And YOU can totally do this - no pressure!!!!! I read/listened this book for #MusicalInstrumentOnCover which I borrowed from Hoopla and I loved it 3y
Magpiegem @rockpools ooh thank you so much I actually heard about this book on BBC R4 A Good Read a couple of months ago but I was driving and couldn‘t write it down! As soon as I started reading the synopsis I thought “yes that‘s what it was called!” So that will be a perfect choice for that prompt. It sounds strange and wonderful. 3y
Magpiegem @Cinfhen thank you 🙏 ❤️ I‘m feeling very determined!! And I‘ve just signed up to a swap to send some of my favourite books of the year which will definitely come from #booked2021 discoveries. 3y
Cinfhen That‘s wonderful 🥰 3y
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For my next #Booked2021 prompt I‘m going to read this, which I was given for my birthday - book with pictures in 📸. It is about the human made things you find on the shore, as a coast dweller it is a subject near to my heart.