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008			121106s2007 nyu 000 0deng
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020			_a9781400043385
050	0	0	_aD56.52.H45 _bK3713 2007
082	0	0	_a930 KAP
100	1		_aKapuscinski, Ryszard
240	1	0	_aPodróze z Herodotem _l. English
245	1	0	_aTravels with Herodotus _c/ Ryszard Kapuscinski ; translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: A.A. Knopf _c, 2007.
300			_aviii, 275 p. _c; 23 cm.
520			_aFrom 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 incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes. The companion on his travels: a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. Whether in China, Poland, Iran, or the Congo, it was the "father of history"--and, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalism--who helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist. It is this great forerunner's spirit--both supremely worldly and innately Occidental--that would continue to whet Kapuscinski's ravenous appetite for discovering the broader world and that has made him our own indispensable companion on any leg of that perpetual journey.
600	0	0	_aHerodotus
650		4	_aTravel writing
700	0		_aGlowczewska, Klara
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