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·卡普钦斯基（1932—2007），生于波兰东部小城平斯克近郊一乡村教师家庭。童年遭受二战磨难。高中毕业后开始发表作品。1951年考入华沙大学语言文学系，后转入历史系学习。1956年毕业分配到《青年旗帜》杂志社工作，同年派往印度。1957年从日本转道北京，任特派记者。从此开始了他四十余年驻外记者的生涯，足迹遍及五洲四洋一百余个国家，特别是深入拉美、非洲、中东等人迹罕至的蛮荒地带，亲临火线，发回弥漫着硝烟的真实报道和照片。他一生亲历二十七场革命和政变，四次被判死刑，四十余次被拘关押。同时作为作家，获五十项国内国际大奖，六次提名诺贝尔文学奖候选人，创作了二十余部文学作品，有的被译成三十余种文字，在世界广为传播，被誉为20世纪最具影响力的作家之一。其主要著作有《生命中的另一天》（1976）、《皇帝》（1978）、《伊朗王中王》（1982）、《帝国》（1993）、《太阳的影子》（1998）、《与希罗多德一起旅行》（2004）。