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An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Mini Modern Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski; William Brand
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern
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.
Another Day of Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: Military | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
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 details into narratives that go beyond mere reportage and enter the realm of literature. A ...Show more
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
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
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: Culture
"Imperium" is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the twentieth century - the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. This is Kapuscinski's vivid, compelling and personal report on the life and death of the Soviet superpower, from the e ...Show more
Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: Travel | 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
Nobody Leaves by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: History | 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
Category: History
'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
Category: History | 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
Shah of Shahs by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: Popular History
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 resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppl ...Show more
Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Category: Fiction | Series: Classics of Reportage Ser.
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 Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on ...Show more
THE SOCCER WAR by KAPUSCINSKI RYSZARD
Category: Travel | Series: Vintage International Ser.
Part diary and part reportage, The Soccer War is a remarkable chronicle of war in the late twentieth century. Between 1958 and 1980, working primarily for the Polish Press Agency, Kapuscinski covered twenty-seven revolutions and coups in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Here, with characteris ...Show more