Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is also the author of " Imperium, Another Day of Life, "and" The Soccer War." His books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. Kapuscinski died in 2007.
"Kapucinski fashions an elegant homage to his literary ancestor,
whom he helps us to see as the original foreign correspondent . . .
Does an excellent job of bringing these ancient stories to life.
Educated by the atrocities of his own time, he refuses to let
Herodotus's ancient atrocities become distant and abstract . . .
Sheds light on his whole achievement as a writer . . . His books
continue to live."
-Adam Kirsch, "The New York Sun"
"Kapucinski's rapture is contagious . . . In this dramatic telling
by one of modernity's ablest chroniclers, Herodotus stands for
democracy, openness, and tolerance. The same can be said of the
equally enigmatic, and certain to be missed, author."
-Lawrence Osborne, "Men's Vogue"
"Kapucinski saw more, and more clearly, . . . than nearly any
writer one can think to name. Few have written more beautifully of
unspeakable things. Few have had his courage, almost none his
talent. His books changed the way many of us think about nonfiction
. . . A nameless energy gathers as one reads deeper into Travels
With Herodotus, and one begins to realize that, in many ways,
Kapucinski's previous books, however brilliant, were somewhat
impersonal. Here, finally, we experience the early tremors
Kapucinski underwent for the privilege to write them. Not all of it
is painful; much of it, in fact, is delightful . . . When the last
page of this book is turned, note how much smaller and colder the
world now seems with Kapucinski gone."
-Tom Bissell, "New York Times Book Review"
"A final gift, a call to wander widely and see deeply."
-Patrick Symmes, "Outside"
"An apt concluding chapter to Kapucinski's corpus, an attempt by a
consummate observer to account for the route traced by his own life
via the great Greek traveler and proto-historian. The two men,
separated by 2 ? millenniums, shared a compulsive, openhearted
curiosity . . . Who better to write about a man who could not sit
still than a man who could not get still?"
-Ben Ehrenreich, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
"Personally revealing . . . Kapucinski is not often didactic and
never triumphalist. His luminous narratives are filled with odd
juxtapositions and the ambiguities of real experience . . . Like
Herodotus, Ryszard Kapucinski was a reporter, a historian, an
adventurer and, truly, an artist."
-Matthew Kaminski, "The Wall Street Journal"
"Extraordinary . . . Punctuated by wonder."
-Elizabeth Speller, "Financial Times"
" Kapucinski fashions an elegant homage to his literary ancestor,
whom he helps us to see as the original foreign correspondent . . .
Does an excellent job of bringing these ancient stories to life.
Educated by the atrocities of his own time, he refuses to let
Herodotus ' s ancient atrocities become distant and abstract . . .
Sheds light on his whole achievement as a writer . . . His books
continue to live. "
- Adam Kirsch, The New York Sun
" Kapucinski ' s rapture is contagious . . . In this dramatic
telling by one of modernity ' s ablest chroniclers, Herodotus
stands for democracy, openness, and tolerance. The same can be said
of the equally enigmatic, and certain to be missed, author. "
- Lawrence Osborne, Men ' s Vogue
" Kapucinski saw more, and more clearly, . . . than nearly any
writer one can think to name. Few have written more beautifully of
unspeakable things. Few have had his courage, almost none his
talent. His books changed the way many of us think about nonfiction
. . . A nameless energy gathers as one reads deeper into Travels
With Herodotus, and one begins to realize that, in many ways,
Kapucinski ' s previous books, however brilliant, were somewhat
impersonal. Here, finally, we experience the early tremors
Kapucinski underwent for the privilege to write them. Not all of it
is painful; much of it, in fact, is delightful . . . When the last
page of this book is turned, note how much smaller and colder the
world now seems with Kapucinskigone. "
- Tom Bissell, New York Times Book Review
" A final gift, a call to wander widely and see deeply. "
- Patrick Symmes, Outside
" An apt concluding chapter to Kapucinski ' s corpus, an attempt by
a consummate observer to account for the route traced by his own
life via the great Greek traveler and proto-historian. The two men,
separated by 2 ? millenniums, shared a compulsive, openhearted
curiosity . . . Who better to write about a man who could not sit
still than a man who could not get still? "
- Ben Ehrenreich, Los Angeles Times Book Review
" Personally revealing . . . Kapucinski is not often didactic and
never triumphalist. His luminous narratives are filled with odd
juxtapositions and the ambiguities of real experience . . . Like
Herodotus, Ryszard Kapucinski was a reporter, a historian, an
adventurer and, truly, an artist. "
- Matthew Kaminski, The Wall Street Journal
" Extraordinary . . . Punctuated by wonder. "
- Elizabeth Speller, Financial Times
" Kapucinski fashions an elegant homage to his literary ancestor,
whom he helps us to see as the original foreign correspondent . . .
Does an excellent job of bringing these ancient stories to life.
Educated by the atrocities of his own time, he refuses to let
Herodotus' s ancient atrocities become distant and abstract . . .
Sheds light on his whole achievement as a writer . . . His books
continue to live."
- Adam Kirsch, "The New York Sun"
" Kapucinski' s rapture is contagious . . . In this dramatic
telling by one of modernity' s ablest chroniclers, Herodotus stands
for democracy, openness, and tolerance. The same can be said of the
equally enigmatic, and certain to be missed, author."
- Lawrence Osborne, "Men' s Vogue"
" Kapucinski saw more, and more clearly, . . . than nearly any
writer one can think to name. Few have written more beautifully of
unspeakable things. Few have had his courage, almost none his
talent. His books changed the way many of us think about nonfiction
. . . A nameless energy gathers as one reads deeper into Travels
With Herodotus, and one begins to realize that, in many ways,
Kapucinski' s previous books, however brilliant, were somewhat
impersonal. Here, finally, we experience the early tremors
Kapucinski underwent for the privilege to write them. Not all of it
is painful; much of it, in fact, is delightful . . . When the last
page of this book is turned, note how much smaller and colder the
world now seems with Kapucinski gone."
- Tom Bissell, "New York Times Book Review"
" A final gift, a call to wander widely and see deeply."
- Patrick Symmes, "Outside"
" An apt concluding chapter to Kapucinski' s corpus, an attempt by
a consummate observer to account for the route traced by his own
life via the great Greek traveler and proto-historian. The two men,
separated by 2 ? millenniums, shared a compulsive, openhearted
curiosity . . . Who better to write about a man who could not sit
still than a man who could not get still?"
- Ben Ehrenreich, "Los Angeles Times Book Review"
" Personally revealing . . . Kapucinski is not often didactic and
never triumphalist. His luminous narratives are filled with odd
juxtapositions and the ambiguities of real experience . . . Like
Herodotus, Ryszard Kapucinski was a reporter, a historian, an
adventurer and, truly, an artist."
- Matthew Kaminski, "The Wall Street Journal"
" Extraordinary . . . Punctuated by wonder."
- Elizabeth Speller, "Financial Times"
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