The Touring Caravan

Author: Andrew Jenkinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784420182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
From the original horse-drawn caravan to the sophisticated and well-appointed luxury leisure vehicle we know today, this book follows the dynamic evolution of the touring caravan over the last century. Using a selection of images from his archive, expert Andrew Jenkinson reveals how technical advances as well as interior design revolutionised the touring caravan in the United Kingdom, and how caravanning became a culture and a lifestyle choice. Covering well-known brands such as Eccles, Sprite, Swift and Bailey, this lively and informative book will appeal to caravan enthusiasts and social historians alike, and rekindle happy memories for anyone who has holidayed in a touring caravan.

The Touring Caravan

Author: Andrew Jenkinson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1784420190
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 65

One Man Caravan

Author: Robert Edison Fulton
Publisher: Motorbooks
ISBN: 0760353301
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 355

Book Description
This adventurous work records Robert Edison Fulton's solo round-the-world tour on a two-cylinder Douglas motorcycle between July, 1932 and December, 1933. First published in 1937.

The Story of Sprite Caravans

Author: Andrew Jenkinson
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1787118177
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290

Book Description
This book tells of the story of Sprite caravans, from early primitive designs to the sophisticated Sprite of today. It describes how one man - Sam Alper OBE - was driven to provide the caravanning public with cheap affordable holidays, by bringing the VW/Ford mass-production ethos to the caravan industry.

Caravan of Pain

Author: Scott Alderman
Publisher: Scott Alderman
ISBN: 0578350017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 186

Book Description
Brace yourself for a roller coaster thrill ride as you join the Tattoo the Earth 2000 summer tour of America, the most insane tour ever inflicted on a continent. Featuring twenty of metal’s biggest bands, including Metallica, Slipknot, and Slayer, plus Filip Leu, Sean Vasquez, and the world’s best tattoo artists, these renegade outsiders pissed off all the wrong music business heavyweights but left delirious inked fans in their wake. Caravan of Pain is a rip-roaring music business underdog tale: compelling, hysterical, and cautionary. Its unique peek inside the world of music festivals, metal, and tattooing gives the reader a front row seat to a watershed time in our culture at the turn of the millennium. Told with candor and humor by the tour’s creator Scott Alderman and illustrated with memorabilia and never-before-seen photos, Caravan of Pain is a story of inspiration, persistence, and the dark side of following a dream. "...a rare chronicle of the era in which tattooing went from an underground activity to a part of the mainstream—a shift that Tattoo the Earth can lay claim to having energized. A highly entertaining account of one of rock's most colorful tours." - Kirkus Reviews "...provides interesting, hilarious and often harrowing insight into an era when tattooing was still largely an underground subculture and metal was feared by many." - Revolver "For anyone thinking of starting something like this it shows that you better do a deep background check into the type of people that you might be dealing with if you choose to move forward." - Kevin Lyman, Warped Tour Founder

You are Not Alone & Other Stories

Author: Sherril Jaffe
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936178544
Category : San Francisco (Calif.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Fiction. A homeless woman takes up residence in a man's closet; a detective solves cases by feeling the emotions of the perpetrators; a woman happens upon a swingers' club in the back of a tire shop; a couple struggling with their pets' protracted endgame puts out a hit on them; and a man's mother, newly dead and buried, calls him to ask if she can visit. Each of these fifteen tales set in San Francisco uses its own dream logic to illuminate the great human themes of death, love, jealousy, anger, desire, and the nature of the soul. "These are stories where anything can happen, where we root for characters entangledby both everyday life and fantastical predicaments. Humor and loss weave tightly together through these pages, and Sherril Jaffe's formidable imagination and playful prose shine unexpected light on deep emotional truths." Caitlin Horrocks "In YOU ARE NOT ALONE & OTHER STORIES we hear the heart beating after it has stopped, but not as in Poe. It is righteous and profoundly moving how she convinces us that even when living ends, life continues as nuanced conversations with self and others. Sherril Jaffe's writing will survive us all." Maxine Chernoff "These stories pummel you deceptively, elegantly with the desperation and glory of people just like you muddling through their lives. Its characters stand teetering on brinks of their own making, the pin pulled from the grenade, the reader standing by, wide-eyed, anticipating the detonation, unable to stop turning pages." Joseph Bathanti"

Caravan Cities

Author: M. Rostovtzeff
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
ISBN: 1446545652
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265

Book Description
Originally published in 1932, this classic book contains a wealth of information on caravan trade and cities. Beautifully written and supported by photographs, this book is highly recommended for inclusion on the bookshelf of anyone with an interest in the subject.

Caravans - Illustrated History - From 1960

Author: Andrew Jenkinson
Publisher: David and Charles
ISBN: 1845849701
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
This book traces the evolution of the trailer caravan by describing and picturing milestone models and telling the stories of their manufacturers.

The Touring Caravan in Scotland

Author: Michael Leonard Owen
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description

A Visual History of Caravans

Author: Andrew Jenkinson
Publisher: Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN: 1399092324
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 213

Book Description
This book is a visual and informative look at the heritage of the touring caravan covering over a 100 years of this now very popular form of leisure. The book witnesses the UK being the inventor, developer and major producer of touring caravans. Images; (many from the Authors own personal archive) shows how caravan interior/exterior design has evolved and has been influenced by domestic trends through the decades. With nostalgic images the book brings to life this often forgotten yet important aspect of the modern touring caravan. Covering imported caravans as well as UK manufactured models shows just how continental tastes differ from UK buyers. The touring caravan is a modern and sophisticated leisure vehicle that has evolved since the first commercial built Eccles brand caravan back in 1919. A then rich mans hobby, it became more affordable by the 1930’s and this was made possible with more modern production techniques. The design of the caravan emerged from a basic box like profile influenced by the 1800’s horse drawn gypsy caravan that became a fashionable form of holiday with the gentry. Dr Gordon Stables a retired Naval Officer influenced this idea with his specially built horse drawn caravan “The Wanderer” – now on show at the Broadway Caravan & Motorhome Club Site. Stables wrote of his adventures and caravanning in a sense had begun. The book contains many unpublished and rare images which also features cars from the period too. Andrew writes for Practical Motorhome, Practical Caravan and Park Home and Holiday Caravan Magazine among others and attends all major related shows.