Joel Stratte-McClure

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 Time Magazine, The London Times, People Magazine, The International Herald Tribune, Scientific American, Cosmopolitan and numerous other publications. "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean" describes his life-changing decision at fifty to walk around the Mediterranean Sea and explore the coast, countryside and regional cultures -- as well as his own mind-- with compulsive vigor. Armed with a copy of Homer's "Odyssey" he re-opens this great book for readers and ponders life, divorce, Buddhism, alcoholism, Greek gods, the art of trekking and the vast collection of weird, wicked, wonderful people he meets on the way. The Stanford/Columbia grad is currently based in Redding, California, but travels regularly to the Mediterranean to gather anecdotes and add kilometers for his sequels to "The Idiot and the Odyssey: Walking the Mediterranean." "The Idiot and the Odyssey II: Myth, Magic and Madness on the Mediterranean," was published in 2013. "The Idiot and the Odyssey III: Walking The Mediterranean in the Footsteps of Alexander The Great" is scheduled for publication in late 2018.