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Travels with Herodotus

By Ryszard Kapuscinski

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| Hardcover | 9781400043385

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From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.

Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d likContinue

From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.

Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life’s work—to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes.

The companion on his travels: a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. Whether in China, Poland, Iran, or the Congo, it was the “father of history”—and, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalism—who helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist. It is this great forerunner’s spirit—both supremely worldly and innately Occidental—that would continue to whet Kapuscinski’s ravenous appetite for discovering the broader world and that has made him our own indispensable companion on any leg of that perpetual journey.

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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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