Travels with Herodotus (chaptered) - Ryszard Kapuscinski Audiobook

Written by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Read by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Phoenix Books, Inc.
Release date: January 25, 2010
Duration: 10:02:30

Klara Glowczewska (Translator)

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 1955, just starting his career as a reporter, Kapuscinski wanted to travel just beyond the border of Poland. His editor sent him on assignment much farther afield, to China, Iran, and Africa, with a gift of Herodotus Histories. In this amazing memoir, Kapuscinski compares his own wanderings to those of the Greek historian. He wonders about the motivation behind Herodotus journeys, recounting how his own were spurred by unrest in Poland. Calling Herodotus the first globalist, Kapuscinski uses his volume as comfort, solace, guide, and inspiration

Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man’s journey across continents. . He intersperses Herodotus writings throughout his own musings at the modern world, comparing ancient Persias Darius with the then shah of Iran. As he reads about and dreads the war between the Greeks and Persians, he covers the war in the Congo. Liberated by his travels, Kapuscinski nonetheless feels the impenetrability of the Great Wall of Language in China and all the barriers to overcoming xenophobia and nurturing an appreciation for diverse cultures. Kapuscinskis recollections are intimate and vibrant in his embrace of a broader world…. Booklist, 2007, American Library Association.

Ryszard Kapuscinski hadn’t traveled much before he took a job with the Polish newspaper THE BANNER OF TRUTH. A trip to India–with a Polish translation of Herodotus’s works given to him by an editor–changed that. Nicolas Coster reads with a genuine sense of joy that creates all the excitement of a first trip. Coster captures Kapuscinski’s depiction of the love of reading that often comes with seeing the world, as well as the tension between the real world and Communist teachings about it. Written from a rare Eastern Bloc perspective, Kapuscinski’s book introduces listeners to the joys of reading and learning, and to journalism new and ancient…. AudioFile 2007