'The Empirical Observations of Algernon' is a journey into the everyday unknown and the everyday ordinary. Kooky, quirky, passionate, cool, on occasions provocative. The strength of the narrative comes in essence as much from the reader's soul as that of Algernon's. The writer, as a traveler, is as much a tourist as he is a documenter; the two go hand in hand. The Empirical Observations of Algernon [vol. I] - the first volume in an intended series of four - is six months into that journey. The paperback volume contains 29 photographs and 1 illustration.