The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification

By Anita Louise

Book Overview

A must-have for anyone with a passion for shopping carts and a love of the great outdoors.In The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America author Julian Montague has created an elaborate classification system of abandoned shopping carts, accompanied by photographic documentation of actual stray cart sightings. These sightings include bucolically littered locations such as the Niagara River Gorge (where many a cart has been pushed to its untimely death) and mundane settings that look suspiciously like a suburb near you.Working in the naturalist's tradition, the photographs depict the diversity of the phenomenon and carry a surprising emotional charge; readers inevitably begin to see these carts as human, at times poignant in their abandoned, decrepit state, hilariously incapacitated, or ingeniously co-opted. The result is at once rigorous and absurd, enabling the layperson to identify and classify their own cart spottings based on the situation in which they were found.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810955202
• ISBN13: 9780810955202
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Abrams Image
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.6" x 6.3"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

More Study Needed

As a certified straycartologist I applaud the effort to publicize this issue. I only hope we can convince those crumb bums in Washington that expanding our coverage to the rest of North America can only be achieved with copious federal spending. Like the question burning in the loins of Lewis and Clark before us, what will the West reveal? My crotch is afire with this question: what will the West reveal about...ourselves?...

One of the top four shopping cart reference guides

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.

Wonderfully arcane

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.

A Must Read

Though this may be well trod territory, I enjoyed his original take on the shopping cart epidemic. Between his witicisms and his arcane research approach, I found it a hilariously depresing work. One of the best novels I've read in years. I'm over the age of thirteen.

'Shoppers...we're gonna get you for doing this to us' UBSC local 501*

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...