The Way of Herodotus: Travels with the Man Who Invented History
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780306818578 (0306818574)
Publish date: February 2nd 2010
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
The premise behind this book seemed pretty good at the time: writer tracing the steps of Herodotus. I thought it could not fail. However, the text is extremely dry, full of a lot of digressions (and I don't mean that in a good way), and overall, the book failed to hold my interest after two chapters...