Imperiet, Fotbollskriget och Ebenholts i en volym

1967 far Ryszard Kapuscinski, en av vår samtids mest hyllade utrikesreportrar, genom södra Sovjetunionen och möter en kokande, mångtydig värld med värdiga och stolta människor, trots den totalitära statens förtryck och hårda ko[...]

"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 about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and[...]

'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 Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sl[...]

"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 monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a na[...]

In this book, the author brings a mythographer's perspective and 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 toppled[...]

In 1957, Ryszard Kapuscinski arrived in Africa to witness the beginning of the end of colonial rule as the first African correspondent of Poland's state newspaper. From the early days of independence in Ghana to the ongoing ethnic genocide in Rwanda, Kapuscinski has crisscrossed vast distances pursu[...]

In this definitive biography, Artur Domoslawski shines a new light on the personal relationships of this intensely charismatic, deeply private man, examining the intractable issue at the heart of Kapuscinski's life and work: the relationship and tension between journalism and literature. In research[...]

Ryszard Kapuscinski witnessed and reported on major wars, coups and revolutions as they happened throughout the developing world and global South. In this distillation of his reflections on a lifetime of travel, he takes a fresh look at the Western idea of the Other: the non-European or non-American[...]

In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. This title is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of t[...]

Bringing together for the first time in English a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, Kapuscinski offers up a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone and structure, that is engaged politically, morally, and viscerally with the world around him. Transla[...]

Boka er en krønike bestående av dokumentarstoff om kriger i vår tid. Mellom 1958 og 1980 dekket forfatteren 27 revolusjoner og kupp i Afrika, LatinAmerika og Midtøsten. Her gir han oss historien bak avisreportasjene og beskriver hvordan det er å befinne seg alene i et fremmed land i en fremmed [...]

Keisari on yksi Ryszard Kapuscinskin pääteoksista ja myös yksi eniten käännettyjä puolalaisia kirjoja. Kapuscinski rakentaa tarkan kuvan itsevaltaisen Haile Selassien hovista ja sen elämästä - ilmiantojärjestelmästä, valtataistelusta, korruptiosta ja henkilöpalvonnasta."Keisari aloittaa[...]