Even though most of his great work was written 30 or more years ago, I own four books by the late Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski. In all of his books, Kapuscinski balances history, travel and journalism, and writes with a great level of clarity and detail. He spoke 5 languages. In one of his last books, Travels with Herodotus, he retraces the steps of the 4th century author and philosopher Herodotus, and correlates the amazing observations of Herodotus, to events of the 20th Century. Thousands of years separate the two, but Kapuscinskis asks a lot of questions. As he travels through India, China, Congo, Algeria, Sudan, Greece and Turkey, etc., the author is a very keen observer, and talks to everyone. (this is the book's strongest point.) Kapuscinski has a real way with words and sentences. But the detailed history of Herodotus gets so into the dense weeds of history, that the story occasionally sags. My only other critique is that Kapuscinski is often his own character in this book, which works better in his other books.