Ryszard Kapuscinski is the author of "Travels With Herodotus". The book was given to us for our 50th anniversary but it got put on the shelf along with other books to be read. Finally, I am catching up. It is a wonderful book. The author was Polish and worked all his life as a journalist, living in Africa and China and India, all the while carrying Herodotus and reading and re- reading the ancient text.
It is a pleasure to read a book written by an excellent author. I have read several books that I enjoyed but did not read easily. But Ryszard is a real writer, easy to read, informative but thoughtful. He has written six or seven other books along with his work as a journalist but unfortunately, he died in 2007.
The question of whether or not humans are getting smarter is easily answered by Herodotus. They were just as smart 2500 years ago. I have already downloaded another of Kapuscinski's books. Getting to know a new author is very exciting.
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