plus letters and other material that together form an in-depth portrait

An Appendix reprints the prefaces and introductions to James's individual story collections together with three short articles by James about the ghost story

" - Helen Brown

a new introduction

Leon Golub

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches - Paperback Sort of Books plus letters and other materialA 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