- Hardcover: 176 pages
- Publisher: Harry N. Abrams (May 1 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0810955202
- ISBN-13: 978-0810955202
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 15.9 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 422 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #260,766 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Despite the ubiquity of stray shopping carts, little effort has been made to comprehend the complex relationship between cart and landscape. This is, in no small part, due to the fact that we have until now lacked a formalised language to describe these wayward carts in systematic detail. That is, until now. In "The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification", a layperson is able to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found. In five handy chapters, Montague leads the reader through his identification system, covering such bucolically littered locations as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane sites that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.
About the Author
Julian Montague is a graphic designer and photographer who lives in Buffalo, NY. He is represented by Black & White Gallery in Brooklyn, NY. This is his first book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
This will change your view of shopping carts!,
By Janet (New Brunswick, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Hardcover)
You will never look at lost shopping carts the same way again after reading this book! You start to really see them and wonder how they got there and what they may have been used for, and you will have to try to decide what catogory they are in. The great thing about this book is that it is presented as a serious study which is very interesting, but there is quite an element of humour in it too.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderfully Bizarre,
This review is from: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Hardcover)
A great entry in the "Warped Coffee-Table Books" category, for those that just can't have normal things sitting out for the guests to see. Lovely photos and documentation of this large species of "urban wildlife".
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4.5 out of 5 stars (26 customer reviews) 126 of 134 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of the top four shopping cart reference guides,
By Mitch - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Hardcover)
This book is easily one of the top four reference guides for shopping carts available on the market today. It does an excellent job of covering the following topics:* Shopping carts Overall, I heartily endorse this product. 45 of 46 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
'Shoppers...we're gonna get you for doing this to us' UBSC local 501*,
By Robin Benson - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Hardcover)
Flick through this book and many of you might think Julian Montague needs to get a life, roaming round the North Eastern states snapping the death throes of shopping carts, indeed. The book is a bit of fun though and quite cleverly thought out, but maybe the joke wears a bit thin by page 176.The five sections explain all you'll need to know to about classifying carts, section two lists Class A: False Strays, Types 1-11 and section three Class B: True Strays, Types 1-22. Each type gets a page with a cool photo and details about what to look for. The longest section is four, titled Selected Specimens, with more than three hundred photos of battered and dead carts in the environment, I think the ones in snow look best and they are categorized according to either Class A or B. It won't surprise you to know that the author toiled for six years creating all this. The design and printing of the book is fine and the author takes a pretty good cart photo. The only thing missing, I thought, was some reference to their manufactures, there can't be too many and they most likely all have unique features. This would certainly have added to the thrill of spotting a Class B, Type 11 (train damaged cart) made by A N Other Inc. *United Brotherhood of Shopping Carts. Affiliated to AFL/CIO. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover. 34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
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Wonderfully arcane,
By Rosemary Evetts - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification (Hardcover)
There's no bio for the author, but I hope it helped him get tenure! Designed like a birding guide, it is funny beyond belief. Library of Congress classifies it as an "artistic photography" book, but it has a very droll social anthropology feel about it.
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