Did you not say "It's pretty cool that the author that inspired your trip to Africa never wrote about Africa."?

Has it not been proven to your satisfaction to be an untrue statement?

That makes you a liar, no matter how much you try to weasel out of it!

"never appeared before in book form" It is also possible that it was in column form and was found just as inspiring. "Here is a collection of his best columns". Another possibility is he made a mistake like he admitted previously.

The truth is you don't want to break your streak of being an ass on every thread you post. I think most of us get that!