Ryszard Kapuscinski
Soccer War
$26.95 – Paperback book / Granta
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevera in... Buy or find out more →
Imperium
$24.95 – Paperback book / Granta
During the year the Berlin Wall came down, as the empire convulsed and died, Kapuscinski talked to hundreds of ordinary people about their extraordinary lives and the terror from which they were emerging. Imperium is a r... Buy or find out more →
The Shadow Of The Sun
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist. Kapuscinski has been visiting Africa since 1957. Here he attempts to hold up a mirror to the ever-changing situations and predicaments of an entire contine... Buy or find out more →
Another Day Of Life
$27.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Ryszard Kapuscinski is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, demonstrating an almost mystical ability to discover the odd or overlooked and incorporating these sometimes surreal detail... Buy or find out more →
The Emperor
$22.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
While Ethiopia collapsed around him in 1975, Kapuscinski travelled throughout the country listening to stories of the recently dead Supreme Emperor Haile Selassie by the servants and associates that had surrounded him. T... Buy or find out more →
Shah Of Shahs
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin
In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolve... Buy or find out more →
Cobras Heart Great Journeys
$12.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
One of the most brilliant journalists of the postwar world, Kapuscinski (born 1932) spent decades criss-crossing Africa, witnessing the horrors of a continent ravaged by imperialism and its aftershocks. Humane, evocative... Buy or find out more →
Shadow Of The Sun
$32.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Compiled from four decades of reporting, this is celebrated journalist Kapuscinski's most complete portrait of the Africa that he has made the focus of his great career. Kapuscinski's unorthodox approach and his profound... Buy or find out more →
Travels With Herodotus
$24.95 – Paperback book / Penguin Books
Ryszard Kapuscinski was the greatest traveller-reporter of our time. Travels with Herodotus depicts his beginnings as an inexperienced young Polish journalist and reveals what drove him throughout his extraordinary life.... Buy or find out more →
The Emperor
$21.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
A biography of Haile Selassie, this is Kapuscinski's rendition of Selassie's servants and closest associates accounts- humorous, frightening, sad, grotesque- of a man living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury whi... Buy or find out more →
The Other
$32.00 – Hardcover book / Verso
The master of literary reportage reflects on the West's encounters with the non-European throughout the ages.
Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and reported major wars, coups and revolutions as they happened throughout the d... Buy or find out more →
Travels With Herodotus
$25.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
From the master of literary reportage whose acclaimed books
includeShah of Shahs, The Emperor,andThe Shadow of the
Sun, an intimate account of his first youthful forays beyond
the Iron Curtain.
Just out of university in... Buy or find out more →