num_pages: 256
description: 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.
language: English
title: Mongo: Adventures in Trash
titlecomplete: Mongo: Adventures in Trash
genres: New York, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 201
publisher: Bloomsbury USA