Download or read book The Man who Invented History written by Justin Marozzi and published by John Murray Publishers. This book was released on 2008 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the classical age of Greece, Herodotus wrote the first great prose epic and became known through the ages as "the father of history." But he was much more than that. He was also the world's first travel writer, a pioneering geographer, anthropologist, explorer, moralist, investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and enlightened multiculturalist. He was at once a learned professor and a tabloid journalist, a man of great wit and wisdom with an unfailing eye for fabulous material to inform and amuse, to titillate, horrify, and entertain.