Mongo Adventures in Trash

by Botha, Ted

• ISBN13: 9781582345673
• ISBN10: 1582345678
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-06
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA

Summary

Journalist Ted Botha became obsessed with mongo (defined as any discarded object that is retrieved) when he moved to New York. Decorating his apartment with the furniture and objects he found on Manhattan's streets, he soon realized he wasn't the only person finding things of value in the garbage, and he began meeting all kinds of collectors. Mongo is Botha's remarkable record of his travels among these varied and eccentric people-an appropriately addictive tribute to this longtime, universal phenomenon.

Author Biography

Ted Botha was born in New York and grew up in Japan, South Africa, and Washington, D.C. He has written for the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal, among other publications. His first book, Apartheid in My Rucksack, was a personal account of discovering Africa as a white African.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Pack Rats	p. 6
The Survivalists	p. 33
The Treasure Hunter	p. 55
The Anarchists	p. 78
The Visionaries	p. 103
The Dealer	p. 124
The Voyeur	p. 155
The Archaeologists	p. 175
The Preservationist	p. 200
The Cowboy	p. 223
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