1. Home
  2. Books
  3. Non-Fiction
  4. Biography & True Stories
  5. Memoirs

Free shipping on orders over $99
Rag and Bone

Rag and Bone

A History of What We've Thrown Away

by Lisa Woollett
Paperback
Publication Date: 13/05/2021
Be the first to write a review

Share This Book:

RRP  $24.99

RRP means 'Recommended Retail Price' and is the price our supplier recommends to retailers that the product be offered for sale. It does not necessarily mean the product has been offered or sold at the RRP by us or anyone else.

$24.25
or 4 easy payments of $6.06 with
afterpay
    Please Note: We will source your item through a special order. Generally sent within 120 days.
Add to List

On order from our Australian supplier to our Sydney warehouse.

This backorder is generally sent within 120 days.

Online tracking is available for this item via Australia Post.

Lifelong mudlarker, Lisa Woollett, takes the reader on a lyrical, urgent journey from the Thames out to Cornwall, writing beautifully about nature, consumer culture and the history that can be found on our shores.

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.

ISBN:
9781473663985
9781473663985
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-05-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
John Murray Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
196x128x26mm
Weight:
0.22kg

"A really important book"
- RAYNOR WINN.

'Beautiful, like a muddy journey through time . . . a really important book'
RAYNOR WINN, author of The Salt Path

Lisa Woollett

Lisa Woollett's family have found value in what is thrown away for generations - her great-grandfather was a scavenger and her grandfather was a dustman, while she herself has been a beachcomber all her life, and in recent years has taken photographs of her beach and river finds.

She is the author of two award-winning photography books about the sea, and Rag and Bone won a Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction. She has lived in Cornwall with her family since 2004, in a house shared with buckets and boxes of shore finds.

Our Australian supplier has this title on order. You can place a backorder for this title now and we will ship it to you when it becomes available. 

While we are unable to provide a delivery estimate, most backorders will be delivered within 120 days. If we are informed by our supplier that the title is no longer available during this time, we will cancel and refund you for this item.  Likewise, if no delivery estimate has been provided within 120 days, we will contact our supplier for an update.  If there is still no delivery estimate we will then cancel the item and provided you with a refund.

If we are able to secure you a copy of the title, our supplier will despatch it to our Sydney warehouse.  Once received we make sure it is in perfect condition and then despatch it to you via the Australia Post eParcel service, which includes online tracking.  You will receive a shipping notice from us when this occurs.

You can find this item in:

Memoirs Pollution & threats to the environment Social & cultural history Economics Natural history Conservation of the environment Family history The Earth: natural history general British & Irish history
Show more Show less

Reviews

Be the first to review Rag and Bone.