He enlisted the help of friend and photographer, Mark Smith to collaborate on the project and landed in Alexandria one hundred years to the day after Algot arrived.

Through research and exploration the authors emulate many of Algot Sätterström's photographs and create a visual record of how a century of social and economic change has effected Cairo, Luxor and Jerusalem.

While in Jerusalem Mattias Sätterström and Mark Smith met with the last living member of the Anna and Horatio Spafford family who founded the American Colony.

It also imparts stories about what it took to achieve certain photographs, such as being chased by wild dogs, climbing the Pyramid of Cheops, spending numerous hours in jail to prevent the destruction of over 400 rolls of film, and motorcycle trips far into the Western Desert to assimilate into bedouin culture.

Also in the addenda are letters from Algot to his parents that describe his travels and his commissioned work painting murals for the Mena House Hotel in Giza.