The Idiot And The Odyssey

Walking the Mediterranean

By: Joel Stratte-McClure

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Paperback with Flaps on Inside & Back Covers | 1 November 2008

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When inquisitive American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, we’re in for an exhilarating adventure.

As a 30 year expatriate in France, he explores the coast, countryside and regional cultures – as well as his own mind – with compulsive vigour.

Armed with a copy of Homer’s Odyssey, he re-opens this great book for us as he ponders life, divorce, Buddhism, alcoholism, the art of trekking and a vast collection of weird, wicked, wonderful people along the way.

This is a trip to get into!

About the Author

Joel Stratte-McClure, an American journalist / adventurer who lived in France for over three decades, has been writing about his global trekking and hiking adventures since the 1970s. His work has taken him to over 100 countries and his articles on a variety of subjects have appeared in The International Herald Tribune, Time Magazine, The London Times, People Magazine, Who Weekly, Fast Thinking and numerous other publications. He's currently based in Los Angeles where, when he's not hiking, he writes the Tinseltown SpyWitness column for the Los Angeles Daily News and is completing a book entitled Hollywood's Twenty-Five Hottest Latinos: How They Got There, What They're Doing Now And Where They're Going.

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Preface
Part One
The French Riviera: Getting on the Path
Part Two
Marching to Marseille: Staying on the Path
Part Three
Finishing France: Nudists, Buddhists an a Fish Called Joel
Part Four
Starting the Spanish Steps
Part Five
Coasting Through Spain and Sharing the Path
Part Six
The End of Spain: Travels With a Sorceress and a Med Crawler
Part Seven
Morocco: Walking on Water, Stuck in the Sand
Part Eight
An Italian Roam and Ramble
Hiking Addendum
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