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The Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski
14.95 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Penguin Great Journeys
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 and magical, The Cobra's Heart makes the case for Kapuscinski as a great writer as ...Show more
The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat by Ryszard Kapuscinski
25.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the r ...Show more
The Shadow of the Sun - My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
24.95 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
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
28.00 NZD
29.00 (3% off)
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
Travels with Herodotus (O/P) by Ryszard Kapuscinski (tr from Polish Klara Glowczewska)
55.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
As a novice reporter in the 1950s, the young Ryzsard Kapuscinski wanted nothing more than to travel outside the borders of Poland. One day, without warning, his editor called him into her office and told him he was being sent to India. 'At the end of our conversation, during which I learned that I would ...Show more
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