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Bonjour Paris
by Margaret Kemp
When American journalist Joel Stratte-McClure decides to walk around the Mediterranean Sea, it's an awfully big adventure. “Unreasonable to think anyone can achieve Nirvana until they’ve walked at least 5000kms!” he insists.
Chico News and Review
by Robert Speer
An inveterate hiker and wanderer (as a journalist, he’s been in more than 100 countries), Stratte-McClure undertook the “MedTrek,” as he names it, in 2000 “to reflect, stay in shape, forge new friendships and perhaps have a life-changing adventure or two.
Armchair Journey
by Bruce Elder, Sydney Morning Herald
This is one of those seductive books that, as you read, slowly insinuates itself into your consciousness and becomes more and more compelling and entrancing.
Grand Forks Herald review
by Marilyn Hagerty
During the holidays just past, I kept stealing away. I went on a walking trip with Joel Stratte-McClure around the Mediterranean...
AAP review
by Diana Plater
There must be simpler - and less strenuous - ways to get over a midlife crisis following a divorce...
WHO magazine review
by WHO Magazine
A midlife crisis prompts the US-born, France-based author to walk around the Mediterranean coast in the footsteps of his hero Odysseus...
Booktopia Buzz Book of the Month for December 2008
by Toni Whitmont
American Stratte-McClure is that rare bird among writers who can write a memoir that addresses the universal without sounding pompous or self-indulgent...

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