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…
Saif/23/03/25 There always have been two Mark Twains, and there probably always will be, for duality seems to be intrinsic to the man and his work. Perhaps one of the reasons why Mark Twain continues to live as a writer is that no one has come along to replace him.
Saif 04/03/25
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