Travels with Herodotus

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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.

subjects: Travel,  History,  Literary Criticism,  Nonfiction,  Social life and customs,  Description and travel,  Civilization,  Biography & Autobiography,  Herodotus,  History (Herodotus),  Voyages and travels,  Journalists,  Biography,  India, description and travel,  Authorship,  Voyages,  Voyages autour du monde,  Littérature de reportage,  Art d'écrire,  Civilisation,  Récits personnels,  Viaggi,  Diari e memorie

People: Ryszard Kapuściński,  Herodotus,  Hérodote (0484-0420 av. J.-C),  Hérodote,  Hérodote (0484?-0420? av. J.-C)

Places: India,  Poland,  Mediterranean Region,  Région de la Méditerranée

Times: 20e siècle