"Travels with Herodotus" records how Kapuscinski set out on his firstforays - to India, China and Africa - with the great Greek historianconstantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, visitsDar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems tohappen (but he sees the Mediterranean for the first time). At everyencounter with a new culture, Kapuscinski plunges in, curious andobservant, thirsting to understand its history, its thought, its people.And he reads "Herodotus" so much that he often feels he is embarking ontwo journeys - the first his assignment as a reporter, the secondfollowing Herodotus' expeditions.