The next legs of the journey will take me through Buckinghamshire. This being the case, I have picked up a guidebook of sorts: Buckinghamshire Footpaths, by J.H.B. Peel, found in Wigtown (‘Scotland’s book town’) while on holiday. Buckinghamshire Footpaths was published in 1949, when a Britain battered by war was re-creating itself, and part [...]
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Quiet Man Bucks Reality
Posted in References and signposts, tagged #hopenothate, brighton, buckinghamshire, buckinghamshire footpaths, bucks, mere england, peel, psychogeography on June 22, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I-Spy psychogeography: holiday reading
Posted in References and signposts, tagged bibendum, festival of britain, gehazi, glentrool, Gordon McGregor, I-Spy, michelin, product, Product magazine, psychogeography on June 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Psychogeography, the practice of creating new visions of the urban environment through mindful walking, is everywhere these days. Pick up a comic book for instance – The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910 – and there, alongside A. J. Raffles, Orlando, MacHeath and Ishmael, is Iain Sinclair, ‘the country’s leading proponent of “psychogeography”‘, in the [...]