Travels With Herodotus

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307548238

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Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales. In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad – perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India – the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141021140

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Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski, the novice reporter, told his editor he'd like to go abroad, dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia. Instead he was sent to India. Kapuściński gives us the non-Western world through virginal Western eyes.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-05-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780141910741

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Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays – to India, China and Africa – with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At every encounter with a new culture, Kapuscinski plunges in, curious and observant, thirsting to understand its history, its thought, its people. And he reads Herodotus so much that he often feels he is embarking on two journeys – the first his assignment as a reporter, the second following Herodotus’ expeditions.

Author : Justin Marozzi
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780306816215

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The Way of Herodotus by Justin Marozzi Pdf

An intriguing travel history exploring and evoking the world of Herodotus, with abundant commentary on the legacy and spirit of the "father of history" and the literary art he created.

Author : Alan B. Lloyd
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004041826

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Herodotus book II by Alan B. Lloyd Pdf

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307367099

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The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

A moving portrait of Africa from Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent - a masterpiece from a modern master. Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa in 1957, at the beginning of the end of colonial rule - the "sometimes dramatic and painful, sometimes enjoyable and jubilant" rebirth of a continent. The Shadow of the Sun sums up the author's experiences ("the record of a 40-year marriage") in this place that became the central obsession of his remarkable career. From the hopeful years of independence through the bloody disintegration of places like Nigeria, Rwanda and Angola, Kapuscinski recounts great social and political changes through the prism of the ordinary African. He examines the rough-and-ready physical world and identifies the true geography of Africa: a little-understood spiritual universe, an African way of being. He looks also at Africa in the wake of two epoch-making changes: the arrival of AIDS and the definitive departure of the white man. Kapuscinski's rare humanity invests his subjects with a grandeur and a dignity unmatched by any other writer on the Third World, and his unique ability to discern the universal in the particular has never been more powerfully displayed than in this work.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781784785284

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The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European In this distillation of reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, Ryszard Kapuscinski takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and considering its formative significance for his own work, Kapuscinski traces how the West has understood the non-European from classical times to the present day. He observes how in the twenty-first century we continue to treat the residents of the Global South as hostile aliens, objects of study rather than full partners sharing responsibility for the fate of humankind. In our globalised but increasingly polarised world, Kapuscinski shows how the Other remains one of the most compelling ideas of our times.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804153508

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Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanatacism, and revolution.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.

Author : Jennifer T. Roberts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199575992

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Herodotus: A Very Short Introduction by Jennifer T. Roberts Pdf

Jennifer Roberts introduces the background and writing of the 5th century Greek thinker and researcher Herodotus of Halicarnassus, who invented the genre of historical investigation. She discusses all aspects of his work, including his fascination with his origins; his travels; his interest in seeing the world; and the recurring themes of his work.

Author : Eleanor Wilner
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556592034

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The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Wilner Pdf

"Eleanor Wilner's sudden flights of lyricism are disarming and dazzling."--The New York Times

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : HMH
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1983-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780547539218

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The Emperor by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

This account of the rise and fall of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is “an unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally compassionate book” (Salman Rushdie, Man Booker Prize–winning author). After Haile Selassie was deposed in 1974, Ryszard Kapuściński—Poland’s top foreign correspondent—went to Ethiopia to piece together a firsthand account of how the emperor governed his country, and why he finally fell from power. At great risk to himself, Kapuściński interviewed members of the imperial circle who had gone into hiding. The result is this remarkable book, in which Selassie’s servants and closest associates share accounts—humorous, frightening, sad, grotesque—of a man living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury while his people teetered between hunger and starvation. It is a classic portrait of authoritarianism, and a fascinating story of a forty-four-year reign that ended with a coup d’état in 1974.

Author : Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307424839

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Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski Pdf

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro—and chaos.Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiers—from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal—fighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.

Author : Tomasz Bilczewski,Stanley Bill,Magdalena Popiel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000453621

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The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature by Tomasz Bilczewski,Stanley Bill,Magdalena Popiel Pdf

The Routledge World Companion to Polish Literature offers an introduction to Polish literature through thirty-three case studies, covering works from the Middle Ages up to the present day. Each chapter draws on a text or body of work, examining its historical context, as well as its international reception and position within world literature. The book presents a dual perspective on Polish literature, combining original readings of key texts with discussions of their two-way connections with other literatures across the globe. With a detailed introduction offering a narrative overview, the book is divided into six sections offering a chronological pathway through the material. Contributors from around the world examine the various cultural exchanges at play, with each chapter including: Definitions of key terms and brief overviews of historical and political events, literary eras, trends, movements, groups, and institutions for those new to the area Analysis and notes on translations, including their hidden dimensions and potential Textual focus on poetics, such as strategies of composition, style, and genre A range of historical, sociological, political, and economic contexts From medieval song through to the contemporary novel, this book offers an interpretive history of Polish literature, while also positioning its significance within world literature. The detailed introductions make it accessible to beginners in the area, while the original analysis and focused case studies will also be of interest to researchers.

Author : Samanth Subramanian
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9788184752557

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Following Fish by Samanth Subramanian Pdf

In a coastline as long and diverse as India’s, fish inhabit the heart of many worlds — food of course, but also culture, commerce, sport, history and society. Journeying along the edge of the peninsula, Samanth Subramanian reports upon a kaleidoscope of extraordinary stories. In nine essays, Following Fish conducts rich journalistic investigations: among others, of the famed fish treatment for asthmatics in Hyderabad; of the preparation and the process of eating West Bengal’s prized hilsa; of the ancient art of building fishing boats in Gujarat; of the fiery cuisine and the singular spirit of Kerala’s toddy shops; of the food and the lives of Mumbai’s first peoples; of the history of an old Catholic fishing community in Tamil Nadu; of the hunt for the world’s fastest fish near Goa. Throughout his travels, Subramanian observes the cosmopolitanism and diverse influences absorbed by India’s coastal societies, the withdrawing of traditional fishermen from their craft, the corresponding growth of fishing as pure and voluminous commerce, and the degradation of waters and beaches from over-fishing. Pulsating with pleasure, adventure and discovery, and tempered by nostalgia and loss, Following Fish speaks as eloquently to the armchair traveler as to lovers of the sea and its lore.

Author : Herodotus
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781776529735

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An Account of Egypt by Herodotus Pdf

Regarded by many as the first major historian, Herodotus was a Greek scholar and traveler who set down his impressions of foreign countries and his analysis of wars and other significant events in a relatively straightforward, journalistic manner. This volume contains Herodotus' views on Egypt. For centuries, some of the the author's claims about Egypt were regarded as far-fetched, but evidence has recently come to light that supports some of his long-doubted account.