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Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage International (Paperback)
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 a ...Show more
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: History
"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees ...Show more
Travels with Herodotus (O/P) by Ryszard Kapuscinski (tr from Polish Klara Glowczewska)
Category: Fiction
As a novice reporter in the 1950s, the young Ryzsard Kapuscinski wanted nothing more than to travel outside the borders of Poland. One day, without warning, his editor called him into her office and told him he was being sent to India. 'At the end of our conversation, during which I learned that I would ...Show more