Empire of Scrounge: Inside the Urban Underground of Dumpster Diving, Trash Picking, and Street Scavenging

by Jeff Ferrell

Book Overview

An illuminating and personal journey through Jeff Ferrell's eight month odyssey of living off the streets

"Patrolling the neighborhoods of central Fort Worth, sorting through trash piles, exploring dumpsters, scanning the streets and the gutters for items lost or discarded, I gathered the city's degraded bounty, then returned home to sort and catalogue the take."--from the Introduction

In December of 2001 Jeff Ferrell quit...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814727387
• ISBN13: 9780814727386
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.9" x 7.9"