In Travels with Herodotus
Bookforum has a nice review of Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book "In Travels with Herodotus". Kapuscinski who died in January, was famous for his reporting of wars, coups and revolutions in the developing worlds.
In Travels with Herodotus, Kapuscinski, who died in January, offers a curious account of his beginnings as a journalist and an homage to the ancient-Greek historian whom Cicero dubbed the “father of history.” Not quite an apologia pro vita sua, it is an autobiography by other means.
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There is a certain shapelessness to Travels with Herodotus, which was published in Poland three years ago. It is a loosely structured, meandering book. We catch up with Kapuscinski in Khartoum, where he took in a Louis Armstrong concert, in the Congo, and later in Iran, where he journeyed to Persepolis, an ancient city built by Darius III. Though Kapuscinski has written a partial memoir, he obsessively returns to Herodotus and his chronicles.
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