Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America
by White, Roger B
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- ISBN 10
- 1560988924
- ISBN 13
- 9781560988922
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About This Item
Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2000. xii, 220 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. "Chronicling more than fifty years of individual and industrial tinkering, Roger B. White shows how the technological innovations and cultural ideals of each era influenced motor home design and popular use. Drawing on contemporary descriptions and interviews with motorists and manufacturers, he documents the wooden house cars of the late 1910s and early 1920s, the streamlined metal vehicles of the late 1940s, and a variety of converted trailers and vans that emerged from the booming vacation market of the 1950s, and 1960s." - Publisher. CONTENTS: Early homes on wheels; House cars and the autocamping craze; House cars become streamlined; Autocamping in the postwar era; House cars revisited; Early manufactured motor homes; Motor homes in the age of Aquarius; Epilogue.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.
Synopsis
Roger B. White is a land transportation historian at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History.
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- Title
- Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America
- Author
- White, Roger B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 1560988924
- ISBN 13
- 9781560988922
- Publisher
- Smithsonian Institution Press
- Place of Publication
- Washington D.C.
- Date Published
- 2000
- Size
- 8vo
- Keywords
- COLLECTIBLE
- Bookseller catalogs
- XXX / COLLECTIBLES; Architecture / Domestic; Genre & Subject / Transportation; Design / Industrial;
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