Between Sea and SaharaBetween Sea and Sahara gives us Algeria in the third decade of colonization. Written in the 1850s by the gifted painter and extraordinary writer Eugene Fromentin, the many faceted work is travelogue, fiction, stylized memoir, and essay on art. Fromentin paints a compelling word picture of Algeria and its people, questioning Francesand his ownrole there. He shows French dynamism tending to arrogance, tinged with malaise, as well as the complexity of