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.