Traveling with Herodotus

About This Novel

In 1956, 24-year-old Kapuszczynski became a journalist in socialist Poland. A year later, he was "accidentally" sent to India, the first stop of his decades-long overseas career, where he would discover his life's mission - to travel to remote corners rarely visited, to understand and describe the diversity of the world from there, and to find universal truths among the diverse phenomena. During his more than forty years of smoke-filled and ups and downs around the world, Kapusicinski's eternal travel companion was a copy of Herodotus' "History". Two thousand five hundred years ago, the ancient Greek writer known as the "Father of History" traveled around the known world, describing the diversity of its tribes and nations, and recording their wars and peace. Kapuschczynski regarded Herodotus as a great pioneer and mentor, and considered him the world's first journalist and globalist. From China to Iran, Nigeria to Congo, Angola to Armenia, Herodotus taught the young journalist to discover stories in unlikely places and make sense of the increasingly globalized modern world in which he lived. In this book, Kapusicinski relives his experience of breaking through the Iron Curtain and going out into the world, and tells his journey of awakening to foreign lands and others. This book is the memories of two fearless travelers who crossed time and space and traveled across the world. It is also an extraordinary chronicle that connects the East and the West: the global undercurrents that the author personally experienced and recorded have shaped human history in the past century are still surging today.

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