Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)

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From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years within 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 was a foreign correspondent, hoping to head in a foreign country – in all probability to Czechoslovakia. As a substitute, he was once 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 assisted in shaping his own view of an an increasing number of 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 outstanding chronicle of one man’s journey across continents.

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