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Travels with Herodotus

Podróże z Herodotem

Ryszard Kapuściński (born 1932)

Translated by Klara Glowczewska

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In English

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A great traveller's confession. The author spent decades on the road, learning languages, trying to understand cultures, talking to chance strangers and studying the forces that move states and continents, and now admits how little he grasped. 'I don't know' recurs: in a café in Rome, where people stare at the stranger from the East; at a temple of Kali, exchanging pebbles; in a Chinese train among unreadable faces; walking alone across a field to the gate marked China. His adventures are set beside those of Herodotus and the anecdotes of his Histories.

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About the book

Form
Nonfiction
Length
258 pages in the original
First published
2004 by Znak
Author's age
72 when first published
ISBN

9788324004829 (original)

9780713998481 (Allen Lane, United Kingdom)

9781400043385 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)

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