“Fascinating writing by a Polish reporter trotting off to Nehru's India, Mao's China at the beginning of the Great Leap Forward, Egypt and gun-happy Ethiopia, all the while immersed in his reading of Herodotus, The Histories. Kapuscinski, alone in his room, more often escapes into these ancient battles of Herodotus, than into his own frightening surroundings. He weaves Herodotus' travels together with sensitive first-hand details of the individuals he meets in his own journey. We get tactile...”

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