The Man Who Invented History
Travels with Herodotus
$31.35
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 September 2009
Summary
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-hea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780719567131 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0719567130 |
| Author: | Justin Marozzi |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | John Murray Publishers Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 September 2009 |
| Weight: | 264g |
| Dimensions: | 25mm x 132mm x 198mm |
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Critics Review
Inspired - Anna Kirk, Telegraph Review
Marozzi is a fine advocate for Herodotus - Sunday HeraldMarozzi is a seasoned traveller-historian who pursues his scholarly quarry with the tenacity of a beagle…a rattling good read and a superior work of reflective instruction - History TodayThe most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians - Sunday TelegraphJustin Marozzi is that most precious rarity: a serious traveller who is also a real writer, with a wonderful feel for language, a gift for narrative and an enviable sensitivity and lightness of touch. Brave, romantic, erudite and humane, South from Barbary is a genuinely remarkable debut - William DalrympleThe perfect travel book …observant, shrewd, patient and exceedingly well attuned … It is a measure of Marozzi’s skill that he handles the big themes of history and the small irritations of third-millennium camel travel with equal charm and felicity - Financial TimesExcellent…a superbly rounded and vivid portrait of one of history’s most fascinating personalities - Andrew Roberts, Evening StandardCaptivating, a delightful and fortunate conjunction between the world of [Tamerlane] then and that world transformed today - SpectatorJustin Marozzi
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. His previous two books are Barbary and Tamerlane. He is married and lives in Norfolk and London.
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