About this title: 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2007-06-05
ISBN-13:9781400043385ISBN:1400043387
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9781400078783ISBN:1400078784
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 2008-06-10
ISBN-13:9781400078783ISBN:1400078784
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD Country = UNITED KINGDOM
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780141021140ISBN:0141021144
Description: BRAND NEW PAPERBACK. 288 pages. Records how the author set out on his first forays to india, china and africa with the great greek historian constantly in his pocket. the author sees louis armstrong in khartoum, visits dar-es-salaam, arrives in algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the mediterranean for the first time). (Paperback) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 2007-06-05
ISBN-13:9781400043385ISBN:1400043387
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Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 2007
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"Very disappointing book! I was so interested to read it, particularly after several other books by other authors that delivered on what was promised here. This is really a mildly annoying book, with the author using Herodotus as nothing more than a meaningless prop to offer his fairly basic and very fragmented opinions and views of India, China and other places. Too bad...and his observations of the places he visited are very pedestrian, unenlightening and ultimately conform to basic archetypes/stereotypes."
"From the title page: "Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He died in 2007." This remarkable book is the account of Kapuscinski's years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other interesting locales. But, it is more than an interesting travelogue. He travels with a copy of Herodotus's "The Histories," and describes how the words of the Greek historian helped shape his own view of the world. Over 2,000 years ago, Herodotus traveled far and wide throughout the world of his time, and recorded his insights, analyses, and evaluations of that world; his discovery - "that the cultures of others are a mirror in which we can examine ourselves in order to understand ourselves better." As Kapuscinski follows in the Greek's footsteps, he relates how Herodotus influenced his own insights and evaluations. The book is filled with interesting stories and excerpts from "The Histories," which tempt me to read Herodotus myself. The English translation is outstanding. I highly recommend this book."
"Oh Ryszard, shouldn't your memoir be more compelling?
I wish I had read one of Kapuscinski's prior works - Shah of Shahs or Imperium - before embarking on his trip down memory lane, recounting his experiences as a young foreign journalist in India, China, and Africa. Kapuscinski's revelations are pedestrian throughout, and the connection between his own travels and that of the Ancient Greek, Herodotus, is tenuous at best. I would have either enjoyed a more detailed, thoughtful travel journal from Kapuscinski, or an involved study of Herodotus' Travels. Kapuscinki's experiences are novel and story-worthy, yet he remains in his small box of understanding, unable to penetrate the cultures he enters as a visitor only."
"We are, all of us, pilgrims who struggle along different paths toward the same destination." - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Ryszard Kapuscinski was Polish. He was born in Pinsk which is now Belarus ; but became one of the most famous and honored foreign correspondents. He is now deceased. For forty years, he traveled the globe from Iran to China to El Salvador to India. Like the ancient historian Herodotus, whose book The Histories was carried by Kapuscinski in all of his travels, Ryszard traveled the globe learning about the similarities and the many differences between the cultures of this planet.
Kapuscinski takes us on his journeys and through his eyes we capture his views of the new globalized world. He shows the reader how an ancient man (Herodotus, considered the Father of History) taught him with the work he published almost 2500 years ago to seek understanding first; and then to learn from the various cultures he would come across as a foreign correspondent.
Kapuscinski shares his gifted insights and observations as he remembers his past journeys; this memoir captures the essence of a very sensitive wanderer who wants to talk intimately about his travels and his life.
When Kapuscinski "crossed the border" and was allowed to travel outside of Poland, his world and his vantage point exploded into a vast number of possibilities that he had previously only dreamed about. It is my feeling that with this memoir the author wanted all of us to reach across our boundaries and our self imposed borders so we could experience more of what life has to offer. Maybe he is saying that all of us should not only look around us; but seek the unknown and wander beyond our comfort zone.
The author owed a lot to Herodotus as he traveled and this is as much a tribute to the memory of the ancient Herodotus as to the "memory of Kapuscinski".
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