Born in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus), the celebrated Polish foreign correspondent Ryszard Kapuscinski is the author of, among other titles, Shah of Shahs, Imperium, Shadow of the Sun, The Other and the memoir Travels with Herodotus. His books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. He died in 2007.
19 Ebooks de Ryszard Kapuscinski
Ryszard Kapuscinski: The Other
Introduction by Neal Ascherson In our globalised but increasingly polarised age, Kapuscinski shows how the Other remains one of the most compelling ideas of our times. In this reflection on a lifetim …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: I Wrote Stone: The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapuscinski
The best of Kapuscinski’s published poems, offered for the first time in English. Das E-Book I Wrote Stone: The Selected Poetry of Ryszard Kapuscinski wird angeboten von Biblioasis und wurde mit folg …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Shadow of the Sun
A moving portrait of Africa from Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent – a masterpiece from a modern master.Famous for being in the wrong places at just the right times, Ryszard Kapuscinski …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Emperor
This account of the rise and fall of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is “an unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally compassionate book” (Salman Rushdie, Man Booker Prize–winning …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Travels with Herodotus
Travels with Herodotus records how Kapuscinski set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. He sees Louis Armstrong in Khartoum, vis …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Emperor
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 sto …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Shah of Shahs
Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical m …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Another Day of Life
‘This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost’. In 1975 Kapuscinski’s employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Shadow of the Sun
‘Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn’t exist’. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing abou …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Nobody Leaves
‘A peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly Kafka’ – Jonathan Miller Regarded as a central part of Kapuscinski’s work, these vivid portraits of life in the depths of Poland embody t …
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Ryszard Kapuscinski: Advertisement for Toothpaste
‘Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing’ The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland Penguin Modern: fifty …
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