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An Advertisement for Toothpaste (Mini Modern Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski; William Brand
$2.50 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | 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
$29.99 AUD
Category: History | 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
$24.95 AUD
Category: History
"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
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Category: History | 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
$27.99 AUD
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
$29.99 AUD
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
$22.95 AUD
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
Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$26.95 AUD
Category: History | 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 Cobra's Heart by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$12.95 AUD
Category: Travel | 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
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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 Other by Ryszard Kapuscinski
$32.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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
$19.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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