Collyn Rivers knows his stuff - he's been a research engineer for GM, and specialised in measuring vehicle behaviour and performance. In the 1960's, he drive a 4WD laboratory-motorhome across Africa monitoring track conditions. He migrated to Australia in 1963 and subsequently founded the worldwide Electronics Today International magazine that was later to earn itself a global award.

With more than 20 books and magazines in electronics, business computing, communications and music to his credit, he later became Technical Editor of Australian Business and The Bulletin and also wrote the Federal Government's Guide to Information Technology.

Collyn has twice drive across Australia with his sculptor wife Maarit in a full on OKA motorhome. The couple's treks have included making it to the tip of Cape York, across the Simpson Desert and along most of Australia's inland major and minor tracks.

With 40 years experience in designing and using motorhomes and campervans, Collyn Rivers has now put his encyclopedic knowledge of the subject into print in a comprehensive work, The Campervan and Motorhome Book.

Collyn says, "There are tens of thousands of people travelling around Australia in caravans, campervans and motorhomes and the Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia has around 26,000 members with its ranks swelling at the rate of 300 every month."

"For retirees in particular, this is a regular way of life, but despite the rate of growth in the following of the wandering lifestyle there's little independent information available about buying, building, converting or even using these vehicles."

He concluded, "The just published The Campervan and Motorhome Book will fill this need.".

Collyn Rivers' book deals with a host of issues germane to campervans and motorhomes and there's quite a bit that is relevant to caravans too. In the many appendices there is virtually no issue that he hasn't covered. Certainly his engineering background is a superb credential but best of all, Collyn has done it all himself and is still doing it, and he has represented a fine catalogue of experience in this comprehensive handbook.

There's mechanical advice, advice on tyres, advice on choosing a vehicle, building your own RV, gas, water and electrical systems including solar power, what medium of fuel to use, what to carry and how to prepare for a trip. There's also a lot of information on the economics of living on the road, something that is of utmost importance for those who have never done this sort of thing before.

The book, which is spiral bound and very well arranged for easy reference costs $37 (including postage and handling) from Collyn at P.O. Box 3634, Broome, WA 6725.

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