Dave Seminara - Mad Travelers: A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth

Advance Praise for Mad Travelers

Dave Seminara has written a gripping detective story that is also a fascinating history of, and meditation on, the powerful attraction of travel.

Thomas Swick , author of The Joys of Travel: And Stories That Illum inate Them

A revolutionary insight into the mindset of the modern traveler. Full of fascinating stories of adventure that don t hold back on the darker aspects of the reality of wa nderlust.

Levison Wood, author of Walkin g the Nile

This madcap, hard-to-put-down tale gets to the heart of the big question: why do we travel? And why are some people so wild with wanderlust? Dave Seminaras wonderfully written tome detailing the untamed lust for travel is a superb story to get lost in.

David Farley , author of An Irreverent Curiosity: In Search of the Churchs Strangest Relic in Italys O ddest Town

A fascinating account of an extreme, obsessive travel subculture and a brilliant young con man who fleeced its members while masquerading as an upper crust English billionaire. This book is essential reading for anyone with terminal wanderlust (like me) and those who puzzle over our ps ychology.

Richard Grant, author of Ameri can Nomads

Dave Seminara, himself an esteemed collector of passport stamps, has assembled a tale almost too delicious to be true. Part globe-hopping adventure, part detective story, and part examination of the murky world of obsessive travelers, this book reads like a missing season of Parts Unknown in which Anthony Bourdain visits a dozen Fyre F estivals.

Mark Adams, author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time

This is a book about the crackheads of travel. The obsessives. The compulsive. The people with a problem. Normal people take their vacations in Cancun. Or Italy. Or Tahiti. And then there are the weirdos who pencil in a week in Mogadishu. Or a grueling trip to an obscure island in the Chukchi Sea. Seminaras tale isnt about geography. Its about the obsession that drives people to the ends of t he Earth.

J. Maarten Troost, author of The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatoria l Pacific

Mad Travelers is a strange and delightful tale. William Baaekeland, a swindler and world traveler extraordinaire with an honest case of wanderlust, is masterfully dissected. By the end, I was examining my own rambles with a fresh perspective. Take this book on your next long flightpreferably to someplace way, way off the bea ten path.

Noah Stryker, author of Birding Without Borders: An Obsession, a Quest, and the Biggest Year in the World

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Mad Travelers:

A Tale of Wanderlust, Greed and the Quest to Reach the Ends of the Earth

2021 by Dav