Travels with Herodotus

Travels with Herodotus

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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 hed like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wideeyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his lifes workto 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 stonefaced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the nonWestern world as he first saw it, through stillvirginal 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 historyand, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalismwho helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist. It is this great forerunners spiritboth supremely worldly and innately Occidentalthat would continue to whet Kapuscinskis 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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