{"product_id":"2940193076285","title":"Travels with Herodotus","description":"Herodotus, the 5th century chronicler, scarcely figured in the curriculum when famed Polish writer and traveler Ryszard Kapuscinski attended university in the 1950s. After he finished college, Ryszard became a foreign correspondent who hoped 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 him from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. His only companion on his travels was a volume of Herodotus, a gift from his first boss. In his journey across continents, Kapuscinski discovers his life's work: to understand and describe the non-Western world in its remotest reaches, in all its variety, through his still-virginal Western eyes. Throughout his travels, the journalist tests and emulates Herodotus' methods-to wander, look, talk, and listen-so that he can later recount what he saw and learned.","brand":"Phoenix Books, Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46326214525169,"sku":"2940193076285","price":33.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/2940193076285_p0.jpg?v=1765022967","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940193076285","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}