Great Travellers: Herodotus

Radio National (Australia) is currently hosting a series entitled "Great Travellers" on their Life and Times program, which runs on Saturdays at 4pm EST, and Sundays at 6pm. You can access the podcast of their first program, Herodotus, via the:
http://radiotime.com/program/p_2355/Life_and_Times.aspx website.

" Travelling about the world is such a normal part of modern life that we can easily forget what an arduous undertaking it was until very recently. Until well into the 19th century, in fact, anyone who left home needed considerable funds, time, stamina and spirit. Why did they do it?

In a series of ten programs about great travellers throughout history, Robert Dessaix talks to a wide variety of scholars, writers and modern travellers about people who famously did leave home—on pilgrimages, to plunder, to find themselves, to explore, to write books, to serve empires or just to be somewhere else.

The first program starts with the Greek traveller Herodotus in the 5th century BC, the series goes on to investigate travel in 7th century China, in the 14th century Muslim world, among the 17th century buccaneers in the Caribbean, in Victorian England, Africa and the Middle East—right up to Siberia at the end of the 20th century."

I understand this Saturday's program discusses Thomas Cook.

Here is the Life and Times website:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/lifeandtimes/