Following 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. Carpenter would take a walk into the past, to the places where David Jones became David Bowie.
Leaving behind well-known shrines to Bowie, he journeys through South London edgelands to obscurer haunts, from Bickley to Brixton to Eel Pie Island. Ultimately, he 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.
A celebration of the revelatory powers of walking, BOWIELAND opens up our geography in ways rarely seen or so well understood.
Size: 196 x 128mm (paperback)
Pages: 352
Publisher: Monoray