Bowieland : walking in the footsteps of David
Carpenter, Peter, 1957-2025
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Following open heart surgery, poet and writer Peter Carpenter was given one instruction - 'Walk, if you want to stay on this planet'. And so when his hero and inspiration David Bowie died in 2016, he knew what he had to do. The man who was to so many a companion and guide had left no shrine, no focal point of understanding. To reconnect with Bowie, he would take a walk into the past, to the streets, towns and places where David Jones became something more. Walking to recover, to stay alive, Peter realised he was also recovering his lost hero. Leaving behind Heddon Street and Brixton, well-known Bowie shrines, he moved out through South London edgelands and suburbia to remoter Bowie haunts: Croydon, Aylesbury, Pett Level, Southend-on-Sea - finding the windows Bowie had stared out from in Clareville Grove; the streets in Beckenham where he'd scurried by.
Main title:
Bowieland : walking in the footsteps of David / Peter Carpenter.
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Imprint:
London : Monoray, 2025.London : Monoray, 2025.
Collation:
xiii, 335 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
Notes:
Includes QR code.
ISBN:
9781800961548 (hbk)
Dewey class:
821.92821 CAR
Language:
English
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BRN:
3014507