Travels with Herodotus

Name: Travels with Herodotus
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ISBN: 9781400078783

ISBN-10: 1400078784

ISBN-13: 9781400078783

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Authors: Ryszard Kapuscinski, Klara Glowczewska

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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'Historiesin tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.10" wide x 8.00" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.594

Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in 1932. His books have been translated into 19 languages. He lives in Warsaw.



Crossing the Border


Condemned to India


The Train Station and the Palace


Rabi Sings the Upanishads


Chairman Mao's One Hundred Flowers


Chinese Thought


Memory Along the Roadways of the World


The Happiness and Unhappiness of Croesus


The Battle's End


On the Origin of the Gods


The View from the Minaret


Armstrong's Concert


The Face of Zopyrus


The Hare


Among Dead Kings and Forgotten Gods


Honors for the Head of Histiaeus


At doctor Ranke's


The Greek's Technique


Before He Is Torn Apart by Dogs and Birds


Xerxes


The Oath of Athens


Time Vanishes


The Desert and the Sea


The Anchor


Black Is Beautiful


Scenes of Passion and Prudence


Herodotus's Discovery


We Stand in Darkness, Surrounded by Light