Rag and Bone

''A really important book'' RAYNOR WINNFrom relics of Georgian empire-building and slave-trading, through Victorian London''s barged-out refuse to 1980s fly-tipping and the pervasiveness of presen ...

''A really important book'' RAYNOR WINNFrom 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 j