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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Some wear on cover corners. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> In December 200s. I resigned from a position as a tenured professor at a large Arizona university. and settled back in to my old stomping grounds of Fort Worth Texas. I knew that at best this move would leave me a gap of eight months or so until I might or might not locate the next academic position in the fall of 2002. This gap in turn meant that in the meantime my only guaranteed income would be whatever few-and I do mean few-royalties might trickle in from my books. But it also meant that I had an eight-month period for unfettered field research-if only I could figure out a way to survive economically while doing it. Given my long-standing personal and scholarly interest in the often illicit worlds of scrounging. recycling and secondhand living the answer seemed obvious if risky: I’d try to survive as a Dumpster diver and trash picker. I’d try to adopt a way of life that was at the same time field research and free-form survival. (LL)