Of course you should read some Herodotus — who, around 450 bce, essentially invented the practices of history and journalism — but it doesn’t seem appetizing, does it. To get you excited about this fellow, you should first read Ryszard Kapuscinsky’s Travels With Herodotus. Says Kapuscinsky:
And so a person consumed, obsessively tormented by allusion reaches [...]
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Great Book: Travels with Herodotus
March 17, 2009 – 8:09 pm
An Excellent Book
January 5, 2009 – 3:27 pm
The book is Europe’s Last Summer, by David Fromkin. Here’s why:
For some reason, I’ve become fascinated with the First World War — known aptly still as The Great War. Last year, I decided to create a timeline about it, and used a “timeline” from the Wikipedia (really just a table of events [...]
Highly recommend this book
December 22, 2007 – 11:02 pm
Memory may not be what you think: Both the ancient Greeks and other modern scientists offer theories of memory that expand far beyond our own brains. This book, “The Alphabetization of the Popular Mind” is a beautiful exploration of ancient memory and the radical transformation we went through as we went from communicating orally [...]