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Travels with Herodotus
Published by The Folio Society, 2012
Seller: Yesterday's Muse, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA, Webster, NY, U.S.A.
Association Member: ABAA ILAB IOBA
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Reissue. Includes publisher's slipcase. Two tiny blemishes on front slipcase panel. 2012 Hard Cover. xiii, [3], 231 pp. Translated by Klara Glowczewska, preface by Margaret Atwood (author of The Handmaid's Tale), photographic frontispiece and plates by Ryszard Kapuscinski. "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' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.
