{"product_id":"the-road-north-9781848613584","title":"The Road North","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ethe road north is a word-map of Scotland, composed by Alec Finlay \u0026amp; Ken Cockburn as they travel through their homeland, guided by the Japanese poet Basho, whose Osu-no-Hosomichi (Narrow Road to the Deep North) is one of the masterpieces of travel literature. Ken and Alec left Edo (Edinburgh) on May 16, 2010  -  the very same date that basho and his companion Sora departed in 1689  -  and on their return, on May 16, 2011, they published 53 collaborative audio \u0026amp; visual poems describing the landscapes they had seen and the people they had met.","brand":"Shearsman Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771608760663,"sku":"9781848613584","price":14.96,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781848613584.jpg?v=1758728488","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-road-north-9781848613584","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}