Volume 54, Number 13 · August 16, 2007
The Credo of a Great Reporter
By Colin Thubron
Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuscinski, translated from the Polish by Klara Glwczewska
Knopf, 275 pp., $25.00
The books of Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died after a heart attack in January, have always been baffling to categorize; and now, in his last work, Travels with Herodotus, he offers a meditation on the ancient Greek historian, quoting lavishly from The Histories (the English edition uses the translation of Robin Waterfield), interspersed with his own experiences as a journalist, mainly in Africa, over some forty years. It reads by turns as a pious tribute, a fragmentary autobiography, and an extended credo.
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