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| Original Title: | Podróże z Herodotem |
| ISBN: | 1400043387 (ISBN13: 9781400043385) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Nike Literary Award (Nagroda Literacka Nike) for Audience (2005), Премія імені Максима Рильського (2013) |
Ryszard Kapuściński
Hardcover | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 4.06 | 5841 Users | 518 Reviews
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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.
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| Title | : | Travels with Herodotus |
| Author | : | Ryszard Kapuściński |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | June 5th 2007 by Knopf (first published September 28th 2004) |
| Categories | : | Travel. Nonfiction. History. European Literature. Polish Literature. Autobiography. Memoir. Writing. Journalism |
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I know its called Travels with Herodotus but there was too much HerodotusRyszard Kapuściński was one of the strangest yet most charming journalists of the past century. His books are weirdly dreamlike. A foreign correspondent for a Polish newspaper, his writings sometimes feel as though he is passing through great events in a philosophical haze. Despite that he is still able to provide lucid and captivating accounts of what he sees. If a journalist could be accused of being a magical realist, it would be Kapuściński. His dispatches were like the accounts of grand
A whirlwind tour of the world that finds Ryszard Kapucinski, considered the greatest foreign correspondent of the twentieth century, in India, China, the Congo, Kenya, and elsewhere during revolutions, civil wars, and social tumults of the post-WWII period. Kapucinski's travel companion is the great Herodotus, himself considered the "Father of History." The writer goes back and forth between reportage, observation, social criticism, and Herodotus' own ideas preserved in his "Histories." At times
I read Herodotus earlier this year, and among other things I thought, "What the hell just happened?" It's a long book, y'know? Everything happens in it. I mean literally everything: Herodotus's goal was to write down everything known about the world, and over 700 pages, that's what he did. It gets mind-boggling.I needed someone to help me process all that, so I turned to Kapuscinski, the great travel writer and philosopher responsible for The Emperor, a neat oral history of Haile Selassie, as
Enjoyable, but slightly disappointing in that I expected it to be a bit better. This is partially autobiography and partially a poem in praise of Herodotus. (And I will go back and read Herodotus as a result). Kapucinski is really comparing his life to that of Herodotus, and the comparison is not unfair. The first chapter is marvellous - in a few pages capturing post war Poland, the feeling of living under communism, and the sense of being at that age when one is deciding what to do with ones
This book disappointed. I like the author's other work and this idea (interweaving Herodotus with his own explorations) seemed promising. Sadly, his observations were banal, his judgments sometimes simplistic or plain wrong, and the writing was pedestrian. Some of the passages lifted from Herodotus were fascinating, although at times unlikely to be real. Even that, then, was telling.
_Travels with Herodotus_What an amazing journey that was <3. I enjoyed this, i loved this and i hoped it would never end. I wanted more of it.This book was really interesting. Its structure was beautiful following two stories. One was Herodotus' trek to the lenghts of that era's world and the actual author's journey as a reporter and a war correspondent in this era's world. Some parts of the book are autobiographical. And so, so vivid. He only gives us small glimpses of the places he visited
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