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Bowieland : walking in the footsteps of David

Carpenter, Peter, 1957- author

2025

Overview

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.

• Publisher: Monoray
• Subject: Carpenter, Peter, 1957- Travel. / Bowie, David Homes and haunts. / Walking Great Britain. / Literature.
• ISBN: 9781800961548, 9781800961555

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6103.A726 B69 2025	1	BOOK	GENERAL