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Travels with Herodotus
- Title
- Travels with Herodotus / Ryszard Kapuscinski ; translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska.
- Author
- Kapuściński, Ryszard.
- Publication
- London : Penguin,2007.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Glowczewska, Klara.
- Description
- 275 p.; 20 cm.
- Summary
- "Ryszard Kapuscinski was the greatest traveler-reporter of our time.?Travels with Herodotus? depicts his beginnings as an inexperienced young Polish journalist and reveals what drove him throughout his extraordinary life. At every encounter with a new culture? whether Indian, Chinese or African? he plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting to understand its history and its people."? Back cover.
- Uniform Title
- Podróże z Herodotem. English
- Alternative Title
- Podróże z Herodotem.
- Subject
- Contents
- Crossing the border -- Condemned to India -- The train station and the palace -- Rabi sings the Upanishads -- Chairman Mao's one hundred flowers -- Chinese thought -- Memory along the roadways of the world -- The happiness and unhappiness of Croesus -- The battle's end -- On the origin of the gods -- The view from the minaret -- Armstrong's concert -- The face of Zopyrus -- The hare -- Among dead kings and forgotten gods -- Honors for the head of Histiaeus -- At Doctor Ranke's -- The Greek's technique -- Before he is torn apart by dogs and birds -- Xerxes -- The oath of Athens -- Time vanishes -- The desert and the sea -- The anchor -- Black is beautiful -- Scenes of passion and prudence -- Herodotus's discovery -- We stand in darkness, surrounded by light.
- Call Number
- JFD 10-66
- ISBN
- 9780141021140
- 0141021144
- OCLC
- 278032966
- Author
- Kapuściński, Ryszard.
- Title
- Travels with Herodotus / Ryszard Kapuscinski ; translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska.
- Imprint
- London : Penguin,2007.
- Added Author
- Glowczewska, Klara.
- Research Call Number
- JFD 10-66