Mongo

Library Bookwatch, Oct, 2004

Mongo

Ted Botha

Bloomsbury

175-5th Ave. #300, NY, NY 10010

1582344523 $23.95 bloomsburyusa.com

Journalist Ted Botha introduces readers to a different type of collector: a person who finds his treasures in what is typically considered trash, and gets them for free. 'Mongo' is street slang for anything discarded by one person and picked up by another--and it can be found anywhere. Botha picked up sidewalk furniture when he first moved to New York and bumped into many others doing the same--hence the evolution of Mongo : Adventures In Trash, surveying the world of the 'mongo collector' and the strange objects lost and found in life.