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Original Title:	Podróże z Herodotem
ISBN:	1400043387 (ISBN13: 9781400043385)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike) for Audience (2005), Премія імені Максима Рильського (2013)

Travels with Herodotus

Ryszard Kapuściński

Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages

Rating: 4.06 | 5841 Users | 518 Reviews

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Title	:	Travels with Herodotus
Author	:	Ryszard Kapuściński
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 288 pages
Published	:	June 5th 2007 by Knopf (first published September 28th 2004)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. History. European Literature. Polish Literature. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Journalism

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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 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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One of my biggest regrets in life so far is that I never got to take Ryszard Kapuscinski out to dinner. His reportage, such as The Shadow of the Sun and The Emperor catalogues human frailty better than anything since Dante, and like Dante, possesses a moral sense combined with cosmopolitan empathy for nearly everyone he runs into. This was a thoughtful and moving valediction from a person who truly was a citizen of the world.

Ryszard Kapuściński was one of the strangest yet most charming journalists of the past century. His books are weirdly dreamlike. A foreign correspondent for a Polish newspaper, his writings sometimes feel as though he is passing through great events in a philosophical haze. Despite that he is still able to provide lucid and captivating accounts of what he sees. If a journalist could be accused of being a magical realist, it would be Kapuściński. His dispatches were like the accounts of grand

Great mix of a travel book, historical analysis and meaningful philosophy. I love Kapuscinski and his careful and sensitive observing style.

God, what a charming writer. As I find when I read Sebald, I find that Kapuscinski has a great many of the exact same thoughts that I've written about, but phrases them with an infinitely greater degree of eloquence. Throughout, Kapuscinski alternates between past and present, ratcheting across countries and continents.I'm only calling it travel writing by process of elimination. Kapuscinski is traveling, and that is the sole common thread. History, art, Cold War tensions, language, and literary

I know its called Travels with Herodotus but there was too much Herodotus

Description: 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 hed 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 lifes workto understand and describe the world in

Reading Kapuscinski while bed-bound with illness is a blessing and a curse. It offers escape and yet makes my infirmity more pronounced. The vibrancy of the places the author visits and the experiences he has in each is intoxicating. I wanted to pack up my meager belongings and set out again for a new adventure. Exploring the world is intoxicating and addictive. Kapuscinski writes in the book:A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our