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Author : James A. Michener
Release : 1993-01
Genre : Afghanistan
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Book Rating : 347/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Caravans by : James A. Michener
Download or read book Caravans written by James A. Michener. This book was released on 1993-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Andrew Jenkinson
Release : 2023-02-16
Genre : Transportation
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Book Rating : 340/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Visual History of Caravans by : Andrew Jenkinson
Download or read book A Visual History of Caravans written by Andrew Jenkinson. This book was released on 2023-02-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 The book contains many unpublished and rare images which also features cars from the period too.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.
Author : Hege Høyer Leivestad
Release : 2018-03-08
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 939/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Caravans by : Hege Høyer Leivestad
Download or read book Caravans written by Hege Høyer Leivestad. This book was released on 2018-03-08. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Caravans, Hege Høyer Leivestad opens the caravan door to understand how daily life is organised among Britons and Swedes who have relocated, either seasonally or permanently, to mobile homes. Leivestad investigates how the caravan and campsite come to fit and challenge conventional domestic ideals, and how the static mobile caravan can nurture ideas of freedom even when it is standing still. With sensitivity and an awareness of the humour and pathos of the lives of her subjects, Leivestad closely examines the shaping of the European camping phenomenon and its day-to-day pleasures and pains, ranging from friendships ties to conflictive bingo nights, from nosy and noisy neighbours to fake fireplaces and rotten awning floors. As the first ethnographic study of caravan life in Europe, Caravans offers a refreshing take on contemporary mobility debates, showing how movement can best be understood by taking a detailed look at certain specific mundanities in material culture. This rich and topical ethnography is a must-read for students of anthropology, human geography and architecture, and for those with an interest in the possibilities and perils of a life on wheels.
Author : Robert Edison Fulton
Release : 2016-10-01
Genre : Transportation
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Book Rating : 301/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis One Man Caravan by : Robert Edison Fulton
Download or read book One Man Caravan written by Robert Edison Fulton. This book was released on 2016-10-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : James A. Michener
Release : 2014-02-18
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 334/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Caravans by : James A. Michener
Download or read book Caravans written by James A. Michener. This book was released on 2014-02-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1963, James A. Michener’s gripping chronicle of the social and political landscape of Afghanistan is more relevant now than ever. Combining fact with riveting adventure and intrigue, Michener follows a military man tasked, in the years after World War II, with a dangerous assignment: finding and returning a young American woman living in Afghanistan to her distraught family after she suddenly and mysteriously disappears. A timeless tale of love and emotional drama set against the backdrop of one of the most important countries in the world today, Caravans captures the tension of the postwar period, the sweep of Afghanistan’s remarkable history, and the inescapable allure of the past. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Caravans “Brilliant . . . an extraordinary novel . . . The old nomadic trails across the mountains spring into existence.”—The New York Times “Romantic and adventurous . . . [Michener] has a wonderful empathy for the wild and free and an understanding of the reasons behind the kind of cruelty that goes with it.”—Newsday “Michener has done for Afghanistan what . . . his first [book] did for the South Pacific.”—The New York Herald Tribune
