- Karin Muller
Karin Muller (born 1965) is an
Swiss -born author, filmmaker, photographer, and adventurer. Muller set out in the 1990s to travel the world's historic highways. She is an expert lecturer on Japan for theNational Geographic Society , has been featured onNational Public Radio andMinnesota Public Radio 's Marketplace, and her writing appears inNational Geographic and Traveler magazines.Her first expedition took her to the
Ho Chi Minh Trail inVietnam , which enabled her to produce aPBS television special,Hitchhiking Vietnam , and a companion book byGlobe Pequot Press of the same name.Her second expedition took her to the Inca Road, a four-thousand-mile trek from
Quito, Ecuador toSantiago, Chile resulting in a television series, "Along the Inca Road " for National Geographic and a book published by theAdventure Press .Muller's third adventure took her to
Japan , where she lived with a pre-Buddhist mountain ascetic cult, joined asamurai -mountedarchery team, and completed a 1,300-kilometer pilgrimage aroundShikoku . This journey was published in "", as both a documentary series and book. She took no camera crew or companions, or even much money, and went on foot and emerged profoundly changed and understanding more, but also realized as a "typical" American she could not really become Japanese.Muller lives in
Raleigh, North Carolina .External links
* [http://www.japanlandonline.com/ Her website]
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