| ISBN |
9781635570106 (hardback) |
| Name |
Minter, Adam, 1970- author. |
| Title |
Secondhand : travels in the new global garage sale / Adam Minter. |
| Published |
New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. |
| ©2019 |
| Description |
xix, 299 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [283]-291) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface: the donation door -- Empty the nest -- Decluttering -- The flood -- The good stuff -- Danshari -- Our warehouse is a four-bedroom house -- Frayed below the stitch -- Good as new -- Enough to sell -- And it lasts forever -- A rich person's broken thing -- More suitcases. |
| Summary |
"In Secondhand, journalist Adam Minter takes us on an unexpected adventure into the often-hidden, multibillion-dollar industry of reuse: thrift stores in the American Southwest to vintage shops in Tokyo, flea markets in Southeast Asia to used-goods enterprises in Ghana, and more. Along the way, Minter meets the fascinating people who handle-and profit from-our rising tide of discarded stuff, and asks a pressing question: In a world that craves shiny and new, is there room for it all?"-- |
| Subjects |
Minter, Adam, -- 1970-Travel |
| Secondhand trade |
| Consumer behavior |
| Sales personnel -- Biography -- Anecdotes |
| Genre |
Autobiographies |
| Anecdotes |
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