Home on the Road: The Motor Home in America

By Roger B. White

Book Overview

Chronicling more than fifty years of individual and industrial tinkering, Roger B. White shows how the technological innovations and cultural ideas of each era influenced motor-home design and popular... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1560988924
• ISBN13: 9781560988922
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.3" x 0.9" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

The Big Picture with Fine Details

Roger White's book gives readers a fascinating view of the range of types, uses, and meanings of motor homes in America. He has done the historical pick and shovel work to uncover the details that make this story come alive in the experiences of real people. Perhaps the best testimony I can offer is to state that when preparing a university course on the automobile in American life, I turned to this book for its revealing vignettes of Americans who chose to take their "home on the road." It has found a place on my list of optional readings for that course and should be read by anyone interested in America's cultures of mobility, inventiveness, or leisure.

Great Motor Home Book

In this meticulously researached volume, Roger B. White introduces us to the many types of mobile travel vehicles which evolved during the 20th century. It is a masteful piece of scholarship. But this research is expressed in a highly readable text which makes the content easily accessible to the reader unfmailiar with this subject matter. Although I wished that there had been more illlustrations in the book, the ones the author has chosen to include, mostly unseen by the public, succicntly depict the various types of "homes on the road" he is discussing. Nobody interested in the ehtos of the roadside as it evolved in the 20th cnetury should miss reading and owning this terrific volume.

comprehensive

a comprehensive compendium of the motor home in America, the experiences and pelasures of owning and traveling aroud the country in your own home-vehicle.

For the RVer's Bookshelf

Roger B. White traces the evolution of motorhomes from early home-mades to fancy custom-mades, from the psychedelic 1964 hippie bus to today's luxurious interstate cruisers. As recreation vehicles continue to grow in popularity both as vacation lodgings and to fit the lifestyle of full-timing nomads, a look back at the history of these machines for living is like looking through a family album. Lots of old photos and reference material.