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

雷·卡普欽斯基（1932—2007），生於波蘭東部小城平斯剋近郊一鄉村教師傢庭。童年遭受二戰磨難。高中畢業後開始發錶作品。1951年考入華沙大學語言文學係，後轉入曆史係學習。1956年畢業分配到《青年旗幟》雜誌社工作，同年派往印度。1957年從日本轉道北京，任特派記者。從此開始瞭他四十餘年駐外記者的生涯，足跡遍及五洲四洋一百餘個國傢，特彆是深入拉美、非洲、中東等人跡罕至的蠻荒地帶，親臨火綫，發迴彌漫著硝煙的真實報道和照片。他一生親曆二十七場革命和政變，四次被判死刑，四十餘次被拘關押。同時作為作傢，獲五十項國內國際大奬，六次提名諾貝爾文學奬候選人，創作瞭二十餘部文學作品，有的被譯成三十餘種文字，在世界廣為傳播，被譽為20世紀最具影響力的作傢之一。其主要著作有《生命中的另一天》（1976）、《皇帝》（1978）、《伊朗王中王》（1982）、《帝國》（1993）、《太陽的影子》（1998）、《與希羅多德一起旅行》（2004）。