Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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appears in Travel, Travel, and History.
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...
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appears in Travel, Travel, and History.
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