People who dislike budging from their homes or walking beyond their own backyards--and they are always and everywhere in the majority--treat Herodotus' sort, fundamentally unconnected to anyone or anything, as freaks, fanatics, lunatics even.
Ryszard KapuscinskiAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: polish
- Born: March 4, 1932
- Died: January 23, 2007
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