Karin Muller's "Perilous Journeys"

This Swiss-born author, filmmaker, photographer and adventurer set out to travel the world's historic highways.  She is an expert lecturer for the National Geographic Society and Smithsonian.  Her high-energy, multi-media performance is guaranteed to inspire your spirit of adventure, with insights into world traveling that few ever experience.

Perilous Journeys is a behind-the-scenes look at living (as a woman, alone) in war zones, communist countries, among the Maasai and the Bushmen and a dozen other cultures from Cuba to Sudan, Vietnam, Japan, and South America.  National Geographic Explorer Karin Muller talks about some of the secrets she has learned on the road, what to do if you're in North Africa and are suddenly confronted by six teenagers armed with AK-47s (hint: break-dance), why Shakespeare is a hit in a squatter's village in the Philippines, how to become a part of an East African warrior tribe, how to make your own visa stamp in Vietnam, and a couple dozen other stories that illustrate larger points on travel and global adventuring.  It's a multimedia presentation, so Karin shares her experiences through the use of film clips from all of her projects, slides, etc.

Karin's first expedition took her to the Ho Chi Minh Trail in Vietnam, which enabled her to produce a PBS television special, "Hitchhiking Vietnam," and a companion book by Globe Pequot Press of the same name.

Her second expecdition took her to the Inca Road, a 4,000-mile trek from Quito, Ecuador to Santiago, Chile, resulting in a telelvision series, "Along the Inca Road" for National Geographic and a book published by the Adventure Press.

Muller's third adventure took her to Japan, where she lived with a pre-Buddhist mountain ascetic cult, joined a samurai-mounted archery team, and completed a 1,300-kilometer pilgrimage around Shikoku.  This journey was published in "Japanland:  A Year in Search of Wa," as both a documentary series and book.

Karin is founder of a nonprofit organization, Take 2, where she provides raw film footage to schools, that tells beautiful and positive stories of people from a variety of cultures in war-torn countries.  Students can then produce their own films and stories.

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