＊本书获得Royal Society of Literature Giles St Aubyn Award for Non-Fiction
 
垃圾是人们消费的活历史，只要看看自己制造什么垃圾，就知道我们消耗了多少东西。
 
这本优美的书结合了家族回忆录、社会历史以及自然科学写作。从乔治亚帝国时期的大楼所留下来的遗迹到维多利亚伦敦的驳船废物到1980年代的非法弃置废物到现代塑料垃圾的无处不在，这本书叙述了垃圾的历史，也同时是人类消费的历史。
 
作者在一路上——她真的从泰晤士河走到伦敦市中心，再到肯蒂士河口最后到康沃尔郡的大海——同时回顾了她家族的历史，许多是从事垃圾事业的。这本书是关于我们能从自己制造的垃圾学到什么，更希望提醒读者要留意自己留下来、扔出去的所有东西。
 
 
 
好评：
A really important book－－RAYNOR WINN
 
Wonderful . . . If you loved The Salt Path, you'll love this book. A glorious celebration of where the natural world meets the human (and the messes we make)―Viv Groskop

Tracing the remote and recent past - her own, and ours - through watery debris, Lisa Woollett conjures up, in poetic prose and brilliant stories, the spin cycle of history. In Rag and Bone, she elegantly picks her way through the trash, to reveal something gloriously and richly strange: a portrait of what we were and what we might become―Philip Hoare

More than personal memoir, this is a powerful book that has much to say about the present and future state of our world―Countryfile

Lisa Woollett's beautifully descriptive language intertwines the stories of the river's history with that of her family, like a muddy journey through time. But it's so much more than that - in recording the waste and the lives we've left behind she's given us a chance to change our ways and possibly head towards a cleaner future―Raynor Winn

Lisa Woollett spins narrative gold out of literal dross in this gorgeous story of our waterways that lulls you like a punt on the Cam before making you seasick at the damage we've wrought on the oceans―Evening Standard, Books to Read This Summer

Accompanied by the fantastically beautiful photographs of her finds, Woollett . . . traces her own family history in poetic prose―Simple Things

Absorbing . . . Woollett has a gift for bringing to life the strange borderlands of the foreshore―Observer

A delicious confection of a book, blending history and memoir with thoughts and close observation. I so enjoyed watching shadows of the past flit across Lisa Woollett's watery pages. It is a timely book, too, when, as Woollett writes, "our waste threatens to overwhelm us"―Sara Wheeler

A constant delight . . . highly recommended―Eden Magazine

Rag and Bone digs deep into the mud of the Thames estuary, and comes up with something compelling and urgent - history told through rubbish. Lisa Woollett is a genuine mudlark, alert and closely attuned to the ways of the intertidal zone. A fascinating book
 
关于作者：
Lisa Woollett的家族长久以来就是做垃圾的。她的曾祖父曾是一位清道夫、她的祖父曾是一位清洁工人，她自己一直都是喜欢在海滩上“寻宝”，最近几年开始摄影在海滩以及河边找到的宝藏。她关于大海的摄影书获得过两个奖项。