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London: Free Association Books, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 239 pages indexed. Apart from minor, intermittent pencil underscoring, the book is in excellent condition, clean and in solid binding. "It all began one morning last July when we noticed a young man of twenty-six crying in his bed in Dr. Pitres's ward. He had just come from a long journey on foot and was exhausted, but that was not the cause of his tears. He wept because he could not prevent himself from departing on a trip when the need took him; he deserted family, work, and daily life to walk as fast as he could, straight ahead, sometimes doing 70 kilometers a day on foot, until in the end he would be arrested for vagrancy and thrown in prison." - Dr. Philippe Tissie, July 1886. Thus begins the recorded case history of Albert Dadas, a native of France's Bordeaux region and the first diagnosed mad traveller, or fugueur. An occasional employee of a local gas company, Dadas suffered from a strange…
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Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses Hardcover - 1999
by Ian Hacking
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- Title Mad Travellers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses
- Author Ian Hacking
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First British
- Pages 239
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Free Association Books, London
- Date May 1999
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781853434556 / 1853434558
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.86 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.89
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