The Man Who Invented History: Travels with Herodotus [Lingua Inglese] - Brossura

'Inspired' (Anna Kirk, Telegraph Review)

'Marozzi is a fine advocate for Herodotus' (Sunday Herald)

'Marozzi 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 Today)

The most brilliant of the new generation of travelwriter-historians (Sunday Telegraph)

'Justin 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 Dalrymple)

'The 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 Times)

'Excellent...a superbly rounded and vivid portrait of one of history's most fascinating personalities' (Andrew Roberts, Evening Standard)

'Captivating, a delightful and fortunate conjunction between the world of [Tamerlane] then and that world transformed today' (Spectator)

'Herodotus may have lived 24 centuries ago but he is our 21st century contemporary and companion - the father not just of history but of comparative ethnography too, not only a brilliant storyteller and indefatigable traveller but also a shrewd and tolerant observer of human fads and foibles on the grandest global scale. Justin Marozzi, himself a veteran traveller and journalist and intrepid crosser of cultural frontiers, does his hero full justice in this scintillating, thought-provoking and entertaining hommage' (Paul Cartledge, Cambridge University)

'A tour de force of travel writing' (John Keay, Literary Review)