From renowned journalist Ryszard  Kapuscinski 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, 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 him from  Iran to El Salvador and from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories  of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus's The 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 shaped the latter half of the 20th century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.