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Ryszard Kapuscinski
As a novice reporter in the 1950’s, Ryzsard Kapuscinski wanted nothing more than to travel outside the borders of Poland. This book records how Kapuscinski set out on his first…
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Examines the reign and recent fall of Ethiopia’s Haile Selassie through eyewitness accounts of former members of the Emperor’s circle.
By the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage (John le Carre)–a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski’s genius writes of…
Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees Louis Armstrong in…
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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…
Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch…
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After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their…
In 1975, Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his experiences there, of…
Creates an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. This book gives a sustained meditation on themosaic of…
Ryszard Kapuscinski’s nonfiction is now considered part of the modern canon. But he was also a poet. This work brings together a selection of his poetry in English.
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The Soccer War is Kapuscinski’s story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.