Sometimes the trip that starts out on the wrong foot can prove to be the most rewarding. You know, showing the fortitude to overcome the initial hassles (missed connection! lost luggage!) and disappointments (tiny cabin! tainted seviche!) can turn a vacation into a journey, leisure into fulfillment. Such is the case in tagging along with the travel writer Justin Marozzi in “The Way of Herodotus,” as he follows in the footsteps of one of the world’s first travel writers and, yes, “father of history.”
--Tobin Harshaw, Antique Road Show, The New York Times, February 19, 2009, review of
The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History, by Justin Marozzi
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Reading RatCriticism (articles, essays, reviews):
...he was thousands of years ahead of contemporary academics in terms of multiculturalism and valuing the contributions of ordinary people, not just kings and generals.
--David Luhrssen, Shepherd Express, April 20, 2009, review of
The Way of Herodotus: Travels With the Man Who Invented History, by Justin Marozzi
A Modern Aesop, by G.W. Bowersock, review of
Travels with Herodotus, by Ryszard Kapuscinski, The New Republic Online, September 20, 2007
Herodotus’ tone has misled many critics. It is almost colloquial, folkloristic — another Odysseus spellbinding an audience of prosperous farmers with the tall tales of The Odyssey. The narrative is so exciting that it has taken the careful archeology of this century to overcome our tendency to disbelief.
--Kenneth Rexroth, Herodotus, History, Classics Revisited (1968)
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