• For Your Consideration:
• A 2001 Trade Paperback edition—RARE!—of:
• “SURVIVING ON THE STREETS: How To Go DOWN Without Going OUT”
(Loompanics Unlimited, 2001) (Trade Paperback, First Edition, First Printing)
• By ACE BACKWORDS
ABOUT THIS TITLE:
• “Street people! We see them frequently in our day-today travels, but we don’t have a clue as to how they survive on the streets. We may get brief glimpses into their world, the missions, the ragged individuals asking for spare change, the soup kitchens, but ACE BACKWORDS gives us our first real foray into the daily life of street people.
“Intended to be written as a how-to for anyone contemplating or more likely thrust by circumstances into street life, it is an uncensored and candid look at an entirely different world that exists co-dependently with the one with which most of us are familiar.
“ACE envisions this as book that would have been of benefit to him at age seventeen, when he first hit an on-amp with his thumb out 27 years ago….
“Within the pages of this book, you’ll find chapters on:
• An overview of street life
• Three things you must have
• Where to sleep—and where not to
• How to deal with the cold and rain
• The 22 types of street people
• The cops
• How to find a stable ‘homeless home’
• The merchants
• The homeless activists
• Food: eating for free
• Making money on the street
• Coping with ‘crazy’ street people
• Drugs and alcohol
• How to keep clean and stay healthy
• Violence: How to avoid it and what to do when you can’t
• Getting off the streets
• And tales of counterculture casualties
“ACE himself admits no book can teach you to survive the countless turbulent pitfalls awaiting you on the street—each street person's situation is unique. However, this book offers specific tips on street survival that worked—and some that didn’t, which might be just as valuable for those who could learn from ACE’s mistakes. For those of us who will never live on the streets, this book gives a brutally honest peek into an alien world from the eyes of a native. Fascinating!”
—THE PUBLISHER
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• For other details about this book, please see below.
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TITLE: “SURVIVING ON THE STREETS: How to Go DOWN Without Going OUT”
AUTHOR: ACE BACKWORDS
TYPE: TRADE PAPERBACK
PUBLISHER, LOCALE, & YEAR: Loompanics Unlimited (Port Townsend, Wa.), 2001
EDITION: First Edition, First Printing*
*RE: On the Copyright Page, no other printings or editions listed.
NOTE: This copy is NOT an ex-library copy.
PAGES: 196
ISBN: 1-55950-201-0
CONDITION OF BOOK: VERY GOOD PLUS. Book is square & firm. The covers have light but persistent scratching & smudging & some creasing. Light wear along edges. Corners are bumped. Though there is a small paper-cut near the middle of the spine, the spine is tight & uncreased with fine tips. Text-block edges are lightly scuffed in a few areas. The pages are all bright & clean—with no writing, no underlining, no highlighting, no foxing, no staining, no tears/rips, no foul odor, etc.
SHIPPING NEWS: This book will be wrapped with care before being shipped in a protected & sturdy mailer. THANK YOU!
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