VW Camper Van: A Biography Hardcover – Jul 1 2013

Review

"If you have ever owned, loved or labored on a VW bus, VW Camper Van: A Biography is the book for you.

This history of the VW bus, matched with humorous stories, offers a multi-generational social context in addition to heart warming stories. Surfers, hippies, young folks looking for a budget vacations, people simply looking for an adventure or a home: all of them have found a friend in the Volkswagen bus.

I can and will talk for hours about my vanagon westy. I absolutely loved this book." - Boing Boing

"It is perhaps fitting that the introduction to the definitive book on Volkswagen's Transporter reads like a blissed-out hippie's stream of consciousness....Someone really has to pick up the movie rights..." - MOTOR MOUTH, driving.ca"Part history, part memoir, the book is sure to delight the most diehard of devoteesâ??and fully entertain those who are merely curious." - BOOKPAGE.COM"This is a very personal and highly readable book, and will appeal equally to hardcore bus freaks as well as those who know little about the VW bus. I was sad to reach the final page and wanted more!" - VW Camper & Commercial"Harding has some great anecdotes. strangely enthralling." - Classic Car Weekly"Well written and really engaging." - Auto Express"This paen to the 'Bulli' is part tribute, part novel, part history book, and a fun route into the model for the non-obsessive." - Classic & Sports Car"It's as much a cultural history as one of the vehicle itself, Harding recalling his first dalliance as an owne, falling in love with 'Molly' on first sight in the romantic environs of Preston... A fun read." - Octane"Mike Harding's engaging account of his love affair with that icon of laid-back hippy chic, the VW Camper, tootles along as niftily as a well-preserved Splitty." - Eastern Daily Press"Love letter to a vehicle forever associated with peace signs, surfer dudes and Aussies making the overland trip to London's 'Kangaroo Valley." - Lonely Planet Traveller"Harding writes as a fan." - Camping

About the Author

Mike Harding is the author of eight Little Books including The Little Book of The Green Man and The Little Book of Gargoyles.