Author's Note : rnrnThe identity of several people in this book has been disguised, in case harsher times return. The journey recorded here took place over a single autumn and early winter, but incorporates a few episodes from an earlier, briefer visit to China. So the book is a compression of experience, and inevitably omits many encounters made barren by people's reticence or by my poor Manda…
Abraham Lincoln, sixteenth President of United States of America, was born on Februari 12, 1809, in a log cabin ona barren farm in the backwoods of Kentucky, about three miles west of a place called Hodgensville in what is now La Rue Country. Saif 21/02/25