The Books of Albion: The Collected Writings of Peter Doherty

Product Information

For hundreds of years, men and women have told stories about the strange people, beautiful as starlight, fierce as wolves, and heartless as ice. Explore Green Men] features new photographs from Ruth Wylie's superb archive, and it has a text which makes sense. Those who still love his former band, The Libertines, or current outfit Babyshambles, argue he's a misunderstood dreamer, a genuine talent, a genius, even.

It's what has made him interesting - this rupture with the archetype of the bedroom-bound romantic to which he otherwise subscribes. These started out as diaries, but soon became a forum for Doherty to explore his thoughts and poetry. A candid and compelling collection of the poems, drawings, personal reflections, lyrics and photographic collages by lyricist, singer and musician Pete Doherty, charting his voyage from Albion to Arcadia. The aim of the series is to provide accessible overviews of the latest academic thinking relating to folklore and mythology. In 2005, Doherty became prominent in tabloids, the news media, and pop culture blogs because of his romantic relationship with model Kate Moss and his frequently-publicised drug addictions.If we are frightened of the fairies, it may be because their world offers an uncomfortable mirror of our own. By focusing on cultural figures who served to define England, Guy Mankowski looks at those who have really shaped Albion’s secret history, not just its oft-quoted official cultural history.

The Books of Albion are a series of journals, notebooks, and scrapbooks maintained by Peter Doherty.

The second edition contains a summary of independent confirmation of the links with Asia together with nine more illustrations. The Books of Albion" is a fascinating joyride through the mind of the band's charismatic frontman Pete Doherty, its 300-plus pages made up of entries from his long-kept diary, his revelations, and there's more than a touch of James Joyce-like inscrutable meanderings in it too. This book is Mankowski’s story, revealing his disappointments, hopes and generation’s take on what England is. Theres some interesting scribbles in there, but unfortunately just not worth the effort it takes to come across them. The gleaming fragments of the nation’s cultural and countercultural histories unearthed by Guy Mankowski’s Albion’s Secret History suggest otherwise.