Author: JUSTIN MAROZZI
Title: The Way of Herodotus. Travels with the Man Who Invented History
Description: John Murray, 2008. Hardcover. Pp: 333. Herodotus is known as the Father of History, but he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, tireless investigative reporter and enlightened multiculturalist before the word existed. He was at once learned professor and tabloid journalist, with an unfailing eye for fabulous material to inform and amuse, to titillate, horrify and entertain. In his masterpiece the Histories, tall stories of dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes jostle for space within a mesmerising narrative of the Persian Wars, from which Greece emerged triumphant in 5 BC to give birth to Western civilisation. Using the effervescent and profoundly modern Herodotus as his guiding light, Justin Marozzi takes the reader back to his world with eclectic travels to Greece, Turkey, Egypt and war-torn Iraq. ISBN: 9780719567117. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780719567117
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Title: The Way of Herodotus. Travels with the Man Who Invented History
Description: John Murray, 2008. Hardcover. Pp: 333. Herodotus is known as the Father of History, but he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, tireless investigative reporter and enlightened multiculturalist before the word existed. He was at once learned professor and tabloid journalist, with an unfailing eye for fabulous material to inform and amuse, to titillate, horrify and entertain. In his masterpiece the Histories, tall stories of dog-headed men, gold-digging ants and flying snakes jostle for space within a mesmerising narrative of the Persian Wars, from which Greece emerged triumphant in 5 BC to give birth to Western civilisation. Using the effervescent and profoundly modern Herodotus as his guiding light, Justin Marozzi takes the reader back to his world with eclectic travels to Greece, Turkey, Egypt and war-torn Iraq. ISBN: 9780719567117. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780719567117
Price: EUR 15.00 = appr. US$ 16.30 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2191886
- Book number: 2191886
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