Travels with Herodotus
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.
In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.
Customer Reviews
Astonishing
I had the great good fortune to read this magnificent memoir/travel book/history, just after finishing Herodotus’ History. This book captures and expands all the often jaw-dropping pleasures of the ancient work while expanding those pleasures in entirely unexpected ways. A master of his style this is essay writing of the very highest order: reportage where it meets poetry.