On the Narrow Road (Paperback)

from Welshwoman

I love this book and have read it so many times over the years. Lesley Downer's travels in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho are touching and amusing at times.

from missizicks

On the Narrow Road to the Deep North is Lesley Downer's first book, a travelogue that reveals small town and rural Japan in the late 1980s, a place that's a world away from the Japan of popular thought. Downer had lived in Japan a decade earlier, and had studied the language and history of the co...

from antao

Doing things out of chronological sequence as I frequently do. Have just finished “On The Narrow Road To The Deep North” by Lesley Downer, a re-creation in 1989 of a journey made 300 years previously by Matsuo Basho, and I have now started on the latter, being the original. Basho was a traveller ...

from Welshwoman

I love this book and have read it so many times over the years. Lesley Downer's travels in the footsteps of Matsuo Basho are touching and amusing at times.

from missizicks

On the Narrow Road to the Deep North is Lesley Downer's first book, a travelogue that reveals small town and rural Japan in the late 1980s, a place that's a world away from the Japan of popular thought. Downer had lived in Japan a decade earlier, and had studied the language and history of the co...