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# Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Amazing . You enjoy every page .
  

*by A***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2023*

This book , only made me want to read other titles by the author.  As I read more, I could evaluate how deeply knowledgeable the author is on every subject he writes about .  Countries, facts , people, nature ! All is covered. Specifically this book sparked my curiosity on reading the book that inspired this one . On the  ancient traveller , Herodotus .

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    The best book of 2008 (on my list of have-reads)
  

*by J***S on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2009*

I am celebrating the first day of 2009 by reviewing the best book I read in 2008. And the winner is -- "Travels with Herodotus," by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died of a fast cancer in early 2007. This book, along with "The Other," was published posthumously.Here is a man, landlocked and controlled by communism, whose greatest dream was to cross the border, just go over and return. A couple of years later, his editor sent him to India (!) with a copy of Herodotus's "Histories." This book was to accompany Kapuscinski for the rest of his life. And profoundly direct him."Travels" is a compilation of commentaries on some of his travels, Herodotus and his book, and its application to his own stories on the road. It is framed in memorable language--clear, vivid, and pictorial."He had a gray, ravaged face, covered in wrinkles. A musty, cheap suit hung loosely on this thin, bony frame....Tears were flowing down his cheeks. And a moment later I heard a suppressed but nevertheless distinct sob. "I'm sorry," he said to me. "I'm sorry. But I didn't believe that I would return.""It was December 1956. People were still coming out of the gulags" (38).On Amazon's Product Page, RK's friend Tahir Shah tells the reader that RK kept two notebooks on his trips. One was for his news stories; the other kept his travel notes that lead to his books. RK reveals his journalist's mind early on to ask all kinds of questions about Herodotus. What kind of toys did he play with? Who did he sit next to in school? Did his mother hug him goodnight? Where did he die? Under what circumstances? He reveals the journalist's propensity to ask questions.When RK visited China for stories, he came to see the Great Wall as a metaphor...."to shut oneself in, fence oneself off" (59). This is the second assignment, the first being India, where RK discovered himself as The Other, which became the title of the second posthumously published book.In his chapter on memory RK ruminates on what memory is and why Herodotus undertook his vast traveling plans. Because memory is elusive, he wanted to "prevent the traces of human events from being erased by time," so he set out on his "enqueries," which RK terms "investigations." He wanders the world, meeting people, listening to what they tell him, or as RK terms him: Herodotus is the first globalist. But he is also "a reporter, an anthropologist, an ethnographer, a historian" (79). Herodotus is "the first to discover the world's multicultural nature" and that we must know and embrace "others" (80).When RK first set out to "cross the border' of Poland, he had no idea he would cover news in Africa, India, China, Malaysia, Central and South American. And in reading and studying Herodotus, he learns much about the world. In places where he had to wait, he spent it pouring over Herodotus's words and retells many of the stories therein.If you saw the movie "300" with Gerard Butler, you may remember how huge Xerxes was--a literal giant. Herodotus makes no mention of such size, but does describe Xerxes in terms writ large. In other words, Xerxes was larger than life. This story is just one of many that RK retells from Herodotus, each more fascinating than the one before."Travels with Herodotus" is rich with details, observations, anecdotes, stories that require crackling fires. It is the story of Ryszard Kapuscinski's travels, it is the story of Herodotus's travels. It is must reading and will enrich your life more than you can imagine."His [Herodotus's] most important discovery? That there are many worlds. And that each is different. Each is important" (264). We could say that about RK's work, as well.

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    good condition and arrived promptly
  

*by L***. on Reviewed in the United States on February 19, 2023*

good condition prompt arrival

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