Travels with Herodotus / Ryszard Kapu¿ci¿ski ; translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska.
Record details
- ISBN: 1400043387
- ISBN: 9781400043385
- Physical Description: viii, 275 pages ; 23 cm ; 2007.
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2007.
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Formatted Contents Note: | Crossing the border -- Condemned to India -- The train station and the palace -- Rabi sings the Upanishads -- Chairman Mao's one hundred flowers -- Chinese thought -- Memory along the roadways of the world -- The happiness and unhappiness of Croesus -- The battle's end -- On the origin of the gods -- The view from the minaret -- Armstrong's concert -- The face of Zopyrus -- The hare -- Among dead kings and forgotten gods -- Honors for the head of Histiaeus -- At Doctor Ranke's -- The Greek's technique -- Before he is torn apart by dogs and birds -- Xerxes - The oath of Athens -- Time vanishes -- The desert and the sea -- The anchor -- Black is beautiful -- Scenes of passion and prudence -- Herodotus's discovery -- We stand in darkness, surrounded by light. |
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Subject: | Herodotus. History. Kapuściński, Ryszard > Travel. |
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