by Ryszard Kapuscinski · Penguin Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141021140
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«Travels with Herodotus» is the travel book and memoir by Ryszard Kapuściński, published by Penguin Books in paperback (288 pages, in English).
The book interweaves Kapuściński's beginnings as a young Polish journalist with his reading of Herodotus's Histories during his travels through India, China and Africa. Kapuściński reflects on journalism, the encounter with other cultures and the way of narrating history through a dialogue between eras separated by twenty-five centuries.
Work originally published in Polish as «Podróże z Herodotem», translated into English by Klara Glowczewska. It won the Nike Prize 2005.
It will interest readers of narrative journalism, memoirs and travel literature, as well as those who want to discover the work of the Polish reporter.
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
