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The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Paperback Sort of Books painters’ galleriesA favourite book of Konstantin Schimanowski, selected for our 2018 Rewind. In his perfectly crafted haiku poems, Basho described the natural world with great simplicity and delicacy of feeling. When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world and bring spiritual enlightenment. He wrote of the seasons changing, of the