Herodotus (484–420 BCE): father of history, teller of lies—what’s the difference? A raconteur preserved in prose. A companionable wanderer who finds the strange in the familiar and the familiar in the strange. History is a story, after all, and so is travel. When we reduce travel writing to a secondary genre, it is because travel […]

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