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The author of this article poses the question of the nature and causes of Ryszard Kapuscinski's traveling, the nature of his interest in life of distant cultures and societies, and tries to situate these interests among others and determine the membership of the wider phenomenon (for example, the post-colonial discourse). The author attaches great importance to the writer's Pinsk pedigree, and more specifically - the experience of uprooting, poverty, war and exile which prevented him longer from settling permanently in any other place. These experiences made him a wanderer, eternal traveler who could, however, only go forward to reach what had been left behind.