A Thousand Tricks: JustSomethingIMade.com

In 1857 at the age of 27 he made his first trip to Africa, visiting Algeria. This was the beginning of a lifetime's involvement with North Africa and the Middle East. It would ultimately lead in the construction of his Arab Hall in 1877 .... once watching a woman screaming at a man while wielding my first book Going Down, once in a Starbucks where I proudly went up to the poor woman and said, “I'm the author of the book you're reading,” and once in a hotel in Amalfi. ...