{"product_id":"bowieland-by-peter-carpenter-9781800961562","title":"BOWIELAND","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFabulous... What a ghost story! A ripping read.\u003c\/strong\u003e — IAIN SINCLAIR, author of \u003cem\u003eLondon Orbital\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eVividly celebrates Bowie as not just a chameleonic visionary, but a nomadic one, a creature informed by place and circumstance.\u003c\/strong\u003e — STUART MACONIE\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBowieland\u003c\/em\u003e will make you want to take your very own pilgrimage, accompanied by the great man's songs.\u003c\/strong\u003e — ALEXANDER LARMAN, \u003cem\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA sublime, time-travelling quest.\u003c\/strong\u003e — TIFFANY MURRAY, author of \u003cem\u003eMy Family and Other Rock Stars\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA joyful and fascinating journey which anchors Bowie's genius in the pavements.\u003c\/strong\u003e — KEVIN LOADER, producer of \u003cem\u003eThe Buddha of Suburbia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBOWIE IS STILL OUT THERE...\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\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\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\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\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\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. A celebration of the revelatory powers of walking, and by no means just for Bowie obsessives, \u003cem\u003eBowieland\u003c\/em\u003e opens up our geography in ways rarely seen or so well understood.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47288384028908,"sku":"9781800961562","price":29.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/8774471a507f36b10e83de8bace66cf4.jpg?v=1770633081","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/bowieland-by-peter-carpenter-9781800961562","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}