The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus - Couverture souple

Marozzi, Justin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719567130 ISBN 13 : 9780719567131

Editeur : John Murray, 2009

Synopsis

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 5BC 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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Justin Marozzi is a travel writer and historian. A former Financial Times foreign correspondent, he is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and has written widely on the Muslim world, travel and exploration. He is married, and lives in Norfolk and London.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719567130
• ISBN 13: 9780719567131
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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