Travels with Herodotus (Audiobook)

From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books include Shah of Shahs, The Emperor, and The Shadow of the Sun, comes an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond the Iron Curtain. Just out of university in 1955, Kapuscinski told his editor that he'd like to go abroad. Dreaming no farther than Czechoslovakia, the young reporter found himself sent to India. Wide-eyed and captivated, he would discover in those days his life's work: to understand and describe the world in its remotest reaches, in all its multiplicity. From the rituals of sunrise at Persepolis to the incongruity of Louis Armstrong performing before a stone-faced crowd in Khartoum, Kapuscinski gives us the non-Western world as he first saw it, through still-virginal Western eyes. TheQuestions surround shooting death of former Miami-Dade corrections officer

When Earl Jackson laughed, the sound billowed from the bottom of his belly. When a friend needed help cooking food, he deep-fried for hundreds of people. He coached a woman’s softball team in South Miami-Dade called the Dirt Angels.

Jackson spent 26 years working for Miami-Dade Corrections, peaking at sergeant while transporting the arrested to and from court. Friends, family and former co-workers adored him and say they never noticed any sign of instability.

That’s why Jackson’s death Saturday after a lengthy chase by North Florida law enforcement officers has left the tightly knit South Florida corrections community jarred, and asking more questions than can be answered.

According to the Florida Highway Patrol, Jackson died during a shootout after a harrowing five-hour search