'The most passionate, engaging and historically profound account of the Soviet empire that I have read.' - Michael Ignatieff
Vera Verdiani Books
Travels with Herodotus
- 288 pages
- 11 hours of reading
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.
In November 1942, Bruno Schulz, teacher of drawing and handicrafts at a boys' college in Drohobycz, was shot dead by a Gestapo officer as he brought home a loaf of bread.