Outlandish

Outlandish is a collection of writings, stories and essays that celebrate some of David Bramwell's favourite countercultural heroes and explore some rather unconventional journeys.
In the company of Werner Herzog, Eva Peron, Gram Parsons, Marina Abramovic, William Burroughs and Andrew Kotting – to name but a few –he takes the roads less travelled, unearthing an artist’s pilgrimage around the world with a giant, inflatable ‘deadad’; the world’s biggest treasure hunt, an extraordinary eleven-year odyssey involving Evita’s mummified corpse, an ethnobotanist’s search for the psychedelic secrets of the Amazon and a couple who walked the Great Wall of China from opposite ends, only to spilt up when they finally met in the middle.
Outlandish is also peppered with the biographies of Pop Art nun Sister Corita Kent, the singer and human rights activist Paul Robeson, psychonaut Amanda Feilding, theosophist Madam Blavatsky and hirsute wizard and author, Alan Moore. At the very end – and with dazzling illustrations from Nye Wright – is a Brighton-based graphic tale that incorporates the town’s hidden river, Aleister Crowley’s ashes and the occult talisman, the Hand of Glory.