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Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$25.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Granta Editions
Imperium is a classic of reportage and a literary masterwork by one of the great writers and witnesses of the twentieth century. It is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the century-the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the ...Show more
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
The Polish journalist whose "The Soccer War" and "The Emperor" are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in "Imperium" to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial book combines childhood memory with unblinking journalism, a radar for the truth with a keen apprec ...Show more
Nobody Leaves by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$23.00 AUD
Category: European | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
When the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to the farthest reaches of his native Poland between foreign assignments. The resulting pieces brought together in this new collection, nearly all of which are translated into English for the first time, reveal a p ...Show more
Nobody Leaves Seventeen Essays on Poland by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$30.00 AUD
Category: European
'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 the young writer's mastery of literary reportage When the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist ...Show more
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$23.00 AUD
Category: Political | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
This journalist's portrait of life in Iran just after the Revolution is "a book of great economy and power with] a supreme sense of the absurd" (New Republic). Iran, 1980: the revolutionaries have taken charge. In a deserted Teheran hotel, Ryszard Kapuściński tries to make journalistic and human sense o ...Show more
The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$28.00 AUD
Category: History
In this distillation of his reflections accumulated from a lifetime of travel, Ryszard Kapuscinski takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other. Looking at this concept through the lens of his own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and considering its formative significance for his own ...Show more
The Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Introduction by Neal AschersonIn 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 lifetime of travel, the renown travel writer takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other- the non-European ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun - My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$20.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In this study, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen as both a whole and as a location, defying generalized explanations, and avoiding the official routes, palaces and big politics. First publi ...Show more
Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$30.00 AUD
Category: Travel Writing
"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, visits Dar-es-Salaam, arrives in Algiers in time for a coup when nothing seems to happen (but he sees ...Show more
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