Travels with Herodotus
by Kapuscinski, Ryszard
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1400043387
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043385
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About This Item
NY: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 2007. First Printing. Hardcover. 1400043387 . Gray paper quarter-bound in brown paper with deckled fore-edge. viii, 275pp. A beautiful copy of this historical travel narrative by the noted Polish foreign correspondent. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .
Synopsis
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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- Bookseller
- Old Saratoga Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56530
- Title
- Travels with Herodotus
- Author
- Kapuscinski, Ryszard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 1400043387
- ISBN 13
- 9781400043385
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- 1400043387, Herodotus
- Bookseller catalogs
- Travel and Adventure;
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