{"product_id":"numbering-don-k-philpot-9781546669791","title":"Numbering","description":"Henry Mayhew (1812-1887), a London journalist, published an extraordinary account of the people he encountered on the streets of London in the mid-1800s. These accounts were published in three volumes in 1861 all with the title London Labor and the London Poor: A Cyclopaedia Of The Condition And Earnings Of Those That Will Work, Those That Cannot Work, And Those That Will Not Work. Among the street-folk he interviewed and reported on in his three volumes are beggars, tumblers, vagrants, artisans, dustmen, sewer hunters, lumpers, clowns, costermongers, rat-killers, and conjurors. \"It is curious,\" writes Henry Mayhew in his first volume, \"[that] the public has less knowledge [of London street-folk] than of the most distance tribes on the earth-the government population returns not evening numbering them among the inhabitants of the kingdom\"-and for this reason surely the literate public will want to read these volumes (Mayhew, 1861: Volume I, iii). In the fictional world of Numbering, a gentleman reporter called Mr. Gray has collected some curious and alarming facts about the folks he has encountered on the streets of London, folks like Geordie, a castaway boy who passes in and out of people's lives until he finally goes underground; and other folks like Willard and Johnny, who struggle to make a living but gain strength from each other; the Jewish boy Baxter; and Jenny, whose life is dominated by her violent and drunken husband Bulger. In Numbering, fictional folks like these and others gain significance in ways actual street-folk likely did not in their lifetimes, significance only you can ascribe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don K. Philpot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1546669795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781546669791\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Createspace Independent Publishing Platform\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/12\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.13lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.00w x 0.11d","brand":"Don K. Philpot","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48873426518271,"sku":"9781546669791","price":6.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/numbering-don-k-philpot-9781546669791","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}