More Bus/Truck Books
Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2004 6:00 pm
Last night I sent some enjoyable time over at Rob Gray's Wothahellizat Site, reading what looks to be his last posted travel journal. He mentioned an Australian book called Move House which appears to have at least a few "Down Under" house trucks and buses, as well as other moveable dwellings. Searching Google for the book title and author shows that it is available for purchase. Here's a pic of the cover:
Rob's own housetruck, Wothahellizat, is an ex-army firetruck:
On Rob's web site, there are pages of construction photographs and descriptions, as well as 33 pages of lengthy journals describing his travels around the continet of Australia. It's a great read, and I've looked forward to each diary entry for a couple of years now, they contain some stunning photography and many wry comment by the ever-dry Rob. Give it a look.
If anyone comes across a copy of Move House, I'd be interested in knowing how that looks as well.
There's also a book I've read but not posted a review of yet called Home on the Road by Roger White, the transportation historian at the Simthsonian Institution's Museum of American History.
This book takes the "motor home" from it's earliest days in the turn of the last century, and examines it all the way up to the late 1990's. The real focus is on the early days, though, when "car-camping" was a craze in the big cities, and all manner of vehicles were modified to allow use as portable accommodations. It's all very scholarly, but includes some knockout photographs of some truly ancient housetrucks, and even has some images and quotes from Rolling Homes.
I always knew that Housetrucking had a long and honorable history....
Rob's own housetruck, Wothahellizat, is an ex-army firetruck:
On Rob's web site, there are pages of construction photographs and descriptions, as well as 33 pages of lengthy journals describing his travels around the continet of Australia. It's a great read, and I've looked forward to each diary entry for a couple of years now, they contain some stunning photography and many wry comment by the ever-dry Rob. Give it a look.
If anyone comes across a copy of Move House, I'd be interested in knowing how that looks as well.
There's also a book I've read but not posted a review of yet called Home on the Road by Roger White, the transportation historian at the Simthsonian Institution's Museum of American History.
This book takes the "motor home" from it's earliest days in the turn of the last century, and examines it all the way up to the late 1990's. The real focus is on the early days, though, when "car-camping" was a craze in the big cities, and all manner of vehicles were modified to allow use as portable accommodations. It's all very scholarly, but includes some knockout photographs of some truly ancient housetrucks, and even has some images and quotes from Rolling Homes.
I always knew that Housetrucking had a long and honorable history....
