The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification | 
 enlarge | Author: Julian Montague
Publisher: Abrams Image
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 271931
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 176
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 6.1 x 0.6
ISBN: 0810955202
Dewey Decimal Number: 779.092
EAN: 9780810955202
ASIN: 0810955202
Publication Date: May 1, 2006
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Product Description
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.
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 Not for everyone, but great nonetheless. August 4, 2008
I have to admit, the book got me looking at stray shopping carts in a whole new way! I find myself eying a collection of carts in the corner of a parking lot, considering their classification and wishing I had my camera with me.
I know, it's weird.
Not everyone is going to appreciate this book, or its deadpan, clinical nature. But if you have a weakness for the strange and/or absurd, this will be a great book to have on your coffee table when you have company over. Especially if you have a Petersen's Guide right next to it.
And the front half of a shopping cart mounted like a hunter's trophy over your fireplace.
I wonder if there's a market for those.
Very good book March 25, 2008
I designed shopping carts for 5 years. After I left that company, I saw this book. I bought it as a gift for my former boss who was the owner of the company that made shopping carts. I thought that he would get a kick out of it. Before I gave it to him, I decided to glance at a few pages and ended up reading through the whole book before I gave it to him. I sort of felt bad since the book is now officially used. He loved it anyway. It was interesting and it has inspired me to do something similar.
 More Study Needed February 8, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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? [For full effect, deliver that last word in a fervent whisper]
Buy this book, and leave it sitting on your coffee table... January 31, 2008
When I first heard mention of this book (in The Believer magazine), I laughed out loud at the concept...
I laughed out loud when it showed up on my doorstep, too. The effort and thought put into the development of this silly book is tremendous. The result is an excellent play on the concept of field identification guides.
Whenever people see this book on my coffee table, it becomes a conversation piece. Funny, funny stuff.
One of the top four shopping cart reference guides December 28, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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.
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