Jim HeatonJim was a serious photographer from age ten, using a fifty-cent boxtop camera and a Baby Brownie to photograph the people of his town in eastern Kansas. He wrote poetry in High School and played alto sax, which he then gave up to study physics, and, ater, linguistics and creative writing. All this came together in the Peace Corps, in 1962, when he got sent to Malawi to teach science and English to high school students in two rural areas of the newly-independent country in the first Peace Corps project there. After Peace Corps, he worked in a kibbutz and traveled in Europe for six months before returning to graduate studies at UCLA and later research in language teaching in Uganda. This is his second travel-memoir book. Read More Read Less