Travels with Herodotus

This memoir follows a young Polish reporter as he is sent abroad in the later twentieth century, carrying a copy of Herodotus that becomes his companion in India, China, and Africa. He sets his first bewilderment among foreign crowds beside the Histories' stories of Croesus, Cyrus, and the wars of Greeks and Persians, treating the ancient book as a lesson in how to watch other peoples and how reporters invent what they cannot see. Newsrooms, hotels, and border posts alternate with readings. The book is a travel memoir braided with a reading of Herodotus, not a translation of the Histories and not a straight autobiography of a career.

Three-quarter bound in light-blue buckram, pale-grey paper sides, cover printed with a monochrome photograph by the author. Dark blue endpapers. Dark blue slipcase.