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Travels with Herodotus

By Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees Continue

Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At every encounter with a new culture, Kapuscinski plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting to understand its history, its thought, its people. And he reads Herodotus so much that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys the first his assignment as a reporter, the second following Herodotus expeditions.

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  • Lessons of the Histories

    Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Allen Lane £20, pp275 With Agatha Christie, you know you're off and running when the first stiff turns up in the library, harbinger of a terrible body count. In the case of Ian McEwan, it's a hint of tran ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

  • Two for the road

    Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated by Klara Glowczewska 282pp, Allen Lane, £20 Born in Poland in 1932, Ryszard Kapuscinski was for many decades a foreign correspondent, initially for a newspaper and then for PAP, the Polish new ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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