Ebook {Epub PDF} Mongo: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha

www.doorway.ru: Mongo: Adventures in Trash () by Botha, Ted and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. "Mongo" is a slang term--new to me--that refers to an object that has been reclaimed from the trash. According to The Cassell Dictionary of Slang, quoted at the beginning of Ted Botha's book, it's a term specific to New York, which is fitting because Botha's exploration of mongo is /5. MONGO: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha In carefully-researched digs at old brownstone privies, amateur archeologists find a porcelain doll, antique medicine bottles and ivory buttons; going down an alley on the upper east side, hunters in minivans pick up a matched set of old chairs and some paintings; another ambitious hunter brings a crane and “rescues” stone columns and architectural features from /5(39).

Mongo: Adventures in Trash Ted Botha. Культура и искусство. Искусствоведение. Book Description mongo n. 1 [s +] an idiot. 2 [s +] (US, New York) any discarded object that is retrieved. Mongo: Adventures in Trash by Ted Botha; (ISBN ). Encyclopedia of Garbage by Steve Coffel, William L. Rathje; (ISBN ). Roskisdyykkarin käsikirja, Tarja Siltala-Huovinen (in Finnish, "Dumpster Diver's Handbook"). The Scavengers' Manifesto, Anneli Rufus and Kristan. See details and exclusions - Mongo: Adventures in Trash. United States. Author. Ted Botha. Spine. 25mm.

mongo n. 1 [s +] an idiot. 2 [s +] (US, New York) any discarded object that is retrieved. 3. [s +] (US, New York) a scrap-metal scavenger. (The Cassell Dictionary of Slang)When journalist Ted Botha moved to New York from South Africa, where people constructed homes out of what others considered trash, he decorated his apartment with furniture he found on Manhattan streets. Dec 27 Mongo, Adventures in Trash Ted Botha. Books. Dec Dec 26 The Animal Lover Ted Botha. Books. Powered by Squarespace. Home. Travel. (The Cassell Dictionary of Slang) When journalist Ted Botha moved to New York from South Africa, where people constructed homes out of what others considered trash, he decorated his apartment with furniture he found on Manhattan streets. Soon he realized he wasn't the only person finding things of value in the garbage, and he began roaming the streets meeting all kinds of collectors, united by their obsession with mongo-any discarded item that is rescued from the trash.