{"product_id":"bowieland-walking-in-the-footsteps-of-david-by-peter-carpenter-9781800961562","title":"BOWIELAND : Walking In The Footsteps Of David","description":"\u003cp\u003eFabulous... What a ghost story. A ripping read.'  Iain Sinclair, author of London Orbital\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Vividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance.' Stuart Maconie\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'Bowieland will make you want to take your very own pilgrimage, accompanied by the great man's songs.' Alexander Larman, The Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A sublime, time-travelling quest.' Tiffany Murray, author of My Family and Other Rock Stars\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e'A joyful and fascinating journey which anchors Bowie's genius in the pavements.' Kevin Loader, producer of The Buddha of Suburbia\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBowie is still out there...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing open heart surgery, Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - walk if you want to stay alive. So, when his hero died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The figure who was to so many a companion and guide had left no single focal point for homage. To reconnect with him, Carpenter would take a walk into the past, to the places where David Jones became something more: David Bowie.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeaving behind well-known shrines to Bowie, he journeyed through South London edgelands to obscurer haunts. Carpenter's quest, a series of happy accidents and chance meetings, took him to Bickley as well as Berlin and Brixton, to Eel Pie Island as well as Heddon Street and Beckenham.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarpenter's perambulations echo Bowie's own wandering creative spirit. They reveal multiple influences, both conscious and unconscious, in Bowie's creative development. Ultimately, Carpenter reaches a fresh understanding of where Bowie sits in the culture, not as an outlier, but as part of a tradition, informed by those artists, poets and musicians who passed on their wisdom to him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA celebration of the revelatory powers of walking, and by no means just for Bowie obsessives, Bowieland opens up our geography in ways rarely seen or so well understood.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Carpenter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57176713396597,"sku":"9781800961562","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0812\/4075\/2426\/files\/9781800961562.jpg?v=1778663661","url":"https:\/\/sherlockandpages.com\/products\/bowieland-walking-in-the-footsteps-of-david-by-peter-carpenter-9781800961562","provider":"Sherlock \u0026 Pages","version":"1.0","type":"link"}