December 11, 1998

'Mad Travelers: Reflections on the Reality of Transient Mental Illnesses'

By NINA C. AYOUB

For an unassuming gas fitter from Bordeaux, Albert Dadas got around. The young Frenchman became famous in the late 19th century for travels as far afield as Constantinople and Moscow. But Dadas was not your typical adventurer. Walking sometimes as much as 40 miles a day, Dadas "traveled obsessively," writes Ian Hacking, "bewitched, often without identity papers and sometimes without identity, not knowing who he was

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