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Travels with Herodotus /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kapuściński, Ryszard
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : A.A. Knopf, 2007.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Herodotus. > History.
Kapuściński, Ryszard > Travel.
Online Access:Table of contents only
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.