Travels with Herodotus

When recent college graduate Ryszard Kapuscinski told his Polish editor that he'd like to work abroad, he had his eyes set on nothing more ambitious than a Prague sabbatical. Instead, his boss dispatched him to India. Thus began the eventful career of a foreign correspondent who was frequently mentioned as a favorite to win the Nobel Prize. Kapuscinski died before he could receive that accolade, but he did gift us with numerous incomparable books, including "The Emperor", "Imperium", and "Shah of Shahs". This book serves as a gentle reprise of his first encounters with the non-Western world. Accompanying him on his travels is a volume of Herodotus, perhaps the first wise commentator on the globalism that still rocks our world.

From the civil wars in Africa to revolutions in the Middle East, in the Cold War if there was a major news story Ryszard Kapuściński was there, always with a copy of Herodotus’ Histories in his luggage. In this fascinating memoir Kapuściński compares his experiences with those of Herodotus writing over fifteen hundred years before him.

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