Online Library Travels With Herodotus Ryszard Kapuscinski least in the art of how to travel, and the book remained a constant companion for the rest of his life. Book Review: Travels With Herodotus, by Ryszard Kapuściński Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Allen Lane £20, pp With Agatha Christie, you know you're off and running. Travels with Herodotus. 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 4/5(16). · Travels with Herodotus is two stories in one. Ryszard Kapuściński weaves tales of his early forays into travel journalism (beginning mids) with his reading of The Histories by Herodotus (c. – BC), that had been recently translated into his native Polish. Kapuściński is a master storyteller who weaves magic realism, historical allegory, and literary techniques into his www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins.
About the Author. Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in Poland in As a foreign correspondent for PAP, the Polish news agency, until he was an eyewitness to revolutions and civil wars in Africa, Asia and Latin America. His books include The Shadow of the Sun, The Emperor, Shah of Shahs, Another Day of Life and Travels with Herodotus. Travels with Herodotus: Ryszard Kapuściński. Struck by a desire to cross the border, even if to just cross it and come right back, Ryszard Kapuściński tells his editor in chief Irena Tarlowska that he would like to go abroad, perhaps to Czechoslovakia. As fate would have it, he is identified to go slightly further than that: to India. Travels with Herodotus is a lovely travelogue, memoir, and literary exploration. As Ryszard Kapuściński recounts the beginning of his career as an international correspondent, he retraces his contemporaneous relationship with Herodotus's Histories. Herodotus was, in a sense, the first great reporter of the Western world.
There are two literary pieces, which should be compared in the paper, Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński, the work, which was published in , and Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer by Rolf Potts, who published his work in The central themes of Kapuściński and Potts are similar, various countries and their traditions are discussed. Download Ebook Travels With Herodotus intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in , Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński Travels with Herodotus is his last work, completed in , just before his death Page 8/ Travels with Herodotus is a lovely travelogue, memoir, and literary exploration. As Ryszard Kapuściński recounts the beginning of his career as an international correspondent, he retraces his contemporaneous relationship with Herodotus’s Histories. Herodotus was, in a sense, the first great reporter of the Western world.
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