Travels with Herodotus
A Autobiography, Africa, Essays book. in reference to Persepolis and all palaces, cities and temples of the past: could these wonders...
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...
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Need on ainukesed hetked, kui ma olen tundnud teist ksindust: seistes ihuksi silmitsi karistamatu vgivallaga. Maailm thjeneb, vaikib, sureb vlja ning kaob. Ryszard Kapuciski, Travels with Herodotus // Rahu ajal matavad lapsed isasid, kuid sja ajal isad lapsi. Ryszard Kapuciski, Travels with Herodotus // on war and conquest: in the realm of human affairs one also needs a pretext. it is important to give it the rank of a universal imperative or of a divine commandment. The range of choices is not great; either it is that we must defend ourselves, or that we have an obligation to help others, or that we are fulfilling heaven's will. the optimal pretext would link all three of the motives. Ryszard Kapuciski, Travels With Herodotus //
I love travelogues. I love classical antiquity. So I really expected to enjoy Ryszard Kapuscinski's Travels with Herodotus, an attempt to mix modern literary reportage with the writings of one of the greatest travelling reporters of all time, Herodotus. Sadly, however, the book was a bit of letdown. The old and new stuff didn't blend... Description: 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 hed like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia,... Curiosity about humanity permeates this book, an interweaving of memoir, readings and reflection. Listening, recording, acute observation, inquiring, wanting to understand what was happening in the present and the past drove both Herodotus and Kapuciski, 2500 years apart. Ryszard Kapuciskis career as a Polish reporter posted in foreign...
