They now live in Calgary with their two sons. He married his wife Terumi in Kumamoto, Japan, in 1995. He joined the Japan Exchange Teachers Programme (JET) soon after and spent five years in Asia.

Visit him at WillFerguson.caįerguson studied film production and screenwriting at York University in Toronto, graduating with a B.F.A. His new novel, The Shoe on the Roof, will be released October 17, 2017. He has won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour a record-tying three times and has been nominated for both the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize. His last work of fiction, 419, won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. After coming back from Japan he exper Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. Visit him at WillFerguson.ca Ferguson studied film production and screenwriting at York University in Toronto, graduating with a B.F.A. Tracking number will be supplied once your shipment has been been processed.Will Ferguson is an award-winning travel writer and novelist. Shipping options can be selected at checkout. We offer Pargo Pickup (3-5 business days), local collection in Somerset West or Aramex door-to-door courier (1-2 business days). If you select EFT as payment method, it may take somewhat longer for payment to reflect on our side before we are able to dispatch. Please ask questions if you need more details on an item's condition.īooks are shipped within one business day of checkout. Items are inspected before listing to ensure they are in an acceptable condition.

And, as Ferguson learns, it illustrates that to travel is better than to arrive.Ĭondition: Ex-LibraryBooks are all in a used condition unless otherwise stated and may contain signs of wear and handling. But, heady on sakura and sake, Will Ferguson bet he could do both.The resulting travelogue is one of the funniest and most illuminating books ever written about Japan. Nor had anyone hitchhiked the length of Japan.

Not in 4000 years of Japanese recorded history had anyone followed the Cherry Blossom Front from one end of the country to the other.

Hokkaido Highway Blues by Will Ferguson