Shortly after his death in 2007, the final book by Ryszard Kapuscinski was published in English. Travels with Herodotus was the reflection of the revered Polish foreign correspondent on a lifetime of travelling and reporting. Told not from perspective of the dominant powers but from the “other” lands, Congo, India, China, Senegal, it was an experiental history of the 20th century, laid side by side with Herodotus’s Histories from two millennia previously. This was the last of many books in which Kapuscinski proved his gift for story-telling; his earlier portraits of the revolutions in Iran, Ethiopia or Angola were enriched with voices from all levels of society.