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From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.

Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life’s work—to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes.

The companion on his travels: a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. Whether in China, Poland, Iran, or the Congo, it was the “father of history”—and, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalism—who helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist. It is this great forerunner’s spirit—both supremely worldly and innately Occidental—that would continue to whet Kapuscinski’s ravenous appetite for discovering the broader world and that has made him our own indispensable companion on any leg of that perpetual journey.

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

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Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.

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希罗多德带着他儿时的火热情感，不断地探索着自己所处的这个世界。他最大的发现，就是还有很多不同的世界。每一个世界都是不同的。

每一个又都是重要的。

应该走出去探索，因为别的世界、别的文化就是可以照见我们自己、照见我们文化的一面镜子。由于这面镜子，我们才能更好地了解自己，因为，我们在别人面前，在与别人比照时，总是不能确定自己的身份。

这也正是为什么希罗多德发现了这个奥秘之后，也就是说，是他首先发现，别的文化是我们的一面镜子，可以照见我们自己，为的是使我们自己更好地了解自己。每天早上，他一次次振作精神，又一次次踏上旅行的征程。

在人类的一切悲哀当中，最令人痛苦的莫过于一个人知道得太多，却又无回天之力。

那时文学可以指导一切，人们需要从文学中找到生活的力量、生活的启示和对生活的重新评价

那些令你着迷的国家会激起你对生活的激情，那些刚刚崛起的新大陆，尽管那里还存在着贫困和饥饿，但这一切都与对美好明天的憧憬相随。

要想在自己的文章中写好一页，就得认真阅读一百页别人就此问题发表的相关论述。

亲临，观察，聆听，参与，思考，然后才是写作

混乱的开罗：所有独裁政权都会充分利用这种混乱状态，不需要付出昂贵的警察和军队费用，只要在人群中找出一两个想混饭吃的人，让他们认识到自己今后有依靠有饭吃。……利益是双方的。这些整天在马上路游手好闲的人，他们能为政权效力，无形中会使他们感觉到，自己的身份地位提高了……事实上， 这些人也只不过是一些街头惯偷、无事生非、打架斗殴的人，或者江湖骗子。现在他们摇身一变，不仅不会受到惩罚，还会让独裁当局刮目相看，他们是一批可用之人。独裁政权拥有廉价的、几乎是无任何成本的劳动力。

波斯波利斯：在这里你找不到那种自然形状的石头，每一块石头都经过了精雕细琢。这里倾注了多少年人们的辛勤劳动和多少人的血汗呀。又有多少人为此献出了自己宝贵的生命？有多少人永远倒在这里，再也没爬起来，又有多少人因为饥渴疲劳死在这里？

每当我参观那些寺庙、宫殿和城市的废墟时，我都会对这些曾经参加建设的劳动者们的命运提出自己疑问……人类如果未经受大苦大难，是否还会创造出这些奇迹？没有奴隶承受皮鞭的抽打，没有对未来的恐惧，没有统治者的高傲自大，是否还会创造出这些古代奇迹？这些伟大的艺术在人们心中是否产生过消极和邪恶的影响？

希罗多德：妥劳索伊人的很多风俗习惯都与色雷斯人极相同：每当妇女生孩子之后，亲族便团团围坐在这个孩子的四周，历数着人世间的一切悲伤和苦恼，并为这孩子出生之后所必然要经历的一切不幸表示悲哀和怜悯之情。在埋葬死者的时候，他们反而是欢欣快乐的，他们认为，死者终于从许多灾难中解脱并彻底脱离了苦海，进入圆满的幸福境地。

书籍介绍

From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain.

Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he’d like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life’s work—to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes.

The companion on his travels: a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. Whether in China, Poland, Iran, or the Congo, it was the “father of history”—and, as Kapuscinski would realize, of globalism—who helped the young correspondent to make sense of events, to find the story where it did not obviously exist. It is this great forerunner’s spirit—both supremely worldly and innately Occidental—that would continue to whet Kapuscinski’s ravenous appetite for discovering the broader world and that has made him our own indispensable companion on any leg of that perpetual journey.