3 - Up and Down the Nile

cruises down Nile, visits defaced ruins

Moses and Jews questions

says Flaubert, who he quotes often, is his model

he talks about writing often - gives the read both a conversational and condescending tone

interesting - he considers the tourists on his boat part of the Egyptian experience - good eye, pg 50

pg 51: "A travel narrative [is] the story of There and Back." he reflects on his slow travel

moves from memory to memory

pg 54: "Travel is at best accidental, and you can't explain improvisation."

visa to Sudan - American consul general warns him that an American was kidnapped and mock-executed