Travels with Herodotus

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  • Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Author:  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • Year: 23-05-2008
  • Availability:  Out Of Stock
  • Product Code:  401-01
  • SKU: 16.0092
  • ISBN: 978-954-321-452-5

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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.

About the Author

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Ryszard Kapuściński (1932–2007) was a Polish journalist, photographer, poet and author. He received many awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Kapuściński's persona... Read more

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Tags: Journalism, Travel Notes, Travels

Specification
Year 23-05-2008
Pages 288
Size 140/215 мм
Weight 0.32 kg
Cover Type Paperback
Genre Journalism, Travel Notes, Travels
Ивелина Петрова 05/12/2011

Благодаря на издателството, че ми даде възможност да се запозная с Ришард Капушчинински. Четенето на книгата беше истинско удоволствие. Пътеписи, но с преценката за места и събития от дистанцията на 2000 години. Херодот, историята и светът в цялото му многообразие, ти стават по-близки.

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