Wandering in Japan: The Spirit of Tokyo: Kyoto and Beyond, Travel Anthology Book Launch
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OAKLAND, Calif. - Californer -- Public Event:
The Wandering in Japan book launch
Saturday, 2:00PM Pacific
Book Passage Event
51 Tamal Vista Blvd., Corte Madera, CA

About the Book
Visiting Japan turns the world upside down and inside out—just the way editors Linda Watanabe McFerrin and Laurie McAndish King like it. In Wandering in Japan (ISBN 978-1-7374502-8-3/September 2022/Paperback/Wanderland Writers) the eighth book in the popular Wandering series, our adventuresome writers set off on yet another exciting trip of discovery, meeting a mysterious geisha, experiencing the dark side of Mount Fuji, confronting a confusing cuisine, encountering spooks and spirits, considering the legacy of Hiroshima, experiencing a religious initiation and recounting a story of almost unbelievable devotion.
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Praise for Wandering in Japan
"Sometimes steeped in tradition, sometimes illuminating the unexpected, the tales collected here present a multidimensional picture that challenges expectations."
—Tony Wheeler, Co-Founder, Lonely Planet Press

About the Editors

In addition to editing a guidebook and twelve anthologies, award-winning poet, travel writer and novelist Linda Watanabe McFerrin (lwmcferrin.com) has judged the San Francisco Literary Awards, the Josephine Miles Award for Literary Excellence and the Kiriyama Prize, served as faculty at the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, the Loft, the Oklahoma Arts Institute, the Hawaii Book and Music Festival and more. Her most recent book, Navigating the Divide, was a Next Generation Indie Book Awards Finalist.

Laurie McAndish King (laurieking.com) is an award-winning travel writer and photographer whose stories cover her search for a three-eyed cannibal, investigating 20-foot-long Australian earthworms, and learning from an Ivy League astrophysicist about how alien spaceships are powered. Her current book, An Elephant Ate My Arm: More True Stories from a Curious Traveler, won first place in the Paris Book Festival.