The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History

by Justin Marozzi

Book Overview

During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first history text. But what he created was much more than this. Informed by his own travels, his historical work digresses more than it chronicles, with tales of the lands and peoples he visited. As Michael Ondaatje once famously suggested, "What you find in him are the cul-de-sacs within the sweep of history." In The Way of Herodotus , intrepid travel historian Justin Marozzi retraces the footsteps...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306816210
• ISBN13: 9780306816215
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 8.9"