The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Celebrity & Popular Culture Eleanor would become a powerful

Eleanor would become a powerful force of her own

and into the deepest fathoms of the ocean and the hearts of our densest cities

utterly brilliant

and Goth the carnivorous vampire bat is the largest bat Shade has ever seen

The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches Celebrity & Popular Culture Eleanor would become a powerfulIn later life Basho turned to Zen Buddhism, and the travel sketched in this volume relfect his attempts to cast off earthly attachments and reach out to spiritual fulfillment. The sketches are written in the "haibun" style a linking of verse and prose. The title piece, in particular, reveals Basho striving to discover a vision of eternity in the transient world around him and his personal evocation of the mysteries of the universe.