Travels with Herodotus
February 21, 2020 - Comment
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A lovely final work Ryszard Kapinscinski was made Poland’s journalist of the century in 1999 and judging by his writing must have been truly deserved. He wrote thrillingly of his travels as a foreign correspondant in the worlds toughest countries. Sadly ‘Travels’ is his final book due to his death in January this year.Having recently read Shadow of the Sun I was eager to seek out more of his writing and was therefore delighted that this publication from 2004 has been translated. It does not…
A lovely and final work Ryszard Kapinscinski was made Poland’s journalist of the century in 1999 and judging by his writing must have been truly deserved. He wrote thrillingly of his travels as a foreign correspondant in the worlds toughest countries. Sadly ‘Travels’ is his final book due to his death in January this year.Having recently read Shadow of the Sun I was eager to seek out more of his writing and was therefore delighted that this publication from 2004 has been translated. It does not…
what to expect Just a comment on my own ‘before reading’ expectations, which were that Kapuscinski would follow similar routes to those described in Herodutus, that is, covering the same geographical ground. That would have been a bit fruitless, yes, as the world has changed beyond recognition in 2500 years, and even human nature seems to have been jacked up to generally more decent levels than of yore. Rather, the Greek classic accompanied a Polish journalist on travels over a much wider range, including…