Travels with Herodotus

TRAVELS WITH HERODOTUS; Ryszard Kapuscinski; New York: Knopf, 2007; Nonfiction; 275 pgs.

Having graduated from the university in 1955, and taken up a job as a journalist, Ryszard Kapuscinski desires nothing more than to "cross a border"--any border. So his editor sends him to India, and from there to China, Africa, Indonesia. He takes as his companion a gift copy of Herodotus' Histories and learns from him the importance of encountering other cultures and other peoples firsthand, and of recording historical events as best as possible. Kapuscinski writes with elegance and warmth about the global village. Translated from the Polish by
Klara Glowczewska.

LW