Travels with Herodotus

Product Details: 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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Travels with Herodotus

He may have died nearly 2,500 years ago, but the Greek historian Herodotus is enjoying a renaissance these days. In the past 20 years, he has popped up in everything from Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient" to Ryszard Kapuscinski's posthumously ...

Travels with dead historian more fun than you’d expect - Richmond Times-Dispatch

I had a lot of fun writing a piece for Saturday's Review about Herodotus , quite possibly my second-favourite ancient Greek writer after Homer. His nine-book history of the Persian wars is gossipy, discursive, outrageous, frequently inaccurate and ...

Herodotus: a historian for today - Guardian Unlimited

Cicero called Herodotus the father of history , but he is not a historian's historian in the sense that Thucydides is. Thucydides, the younger man by about 15 years, produced a forthright account of the war that broke out between Athens and Sparta in ...

The rest is history - Guardian Unlimited

Augustus Granville unpacked his props: he had bandages, bottles of chemicals, a bundle of candles and various bits of an Egyptian mummy. Mummy-mania was in full swing and public unrolling all the rage. But this wasn't going to be a shilling-a-ticket ...