Stanislaw Kapuscinski

'The most passionate, engaging and historically profound account of the Soviet empire that I have read.' - Michael Ignatieff

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West's encounters with the non-European.

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

After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and

When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious mem

Written over a period of twenty years, this book features adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy.

Creates an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. This book gives a su

Imperium is het verhaal van een rijk: de Unie van Socialistische Sovjetrepublieken. Toen Russische matrozen in 1939 Kapuściński’s geboorteplaats in Po

Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It descr

Records how the author set out on his first forays to India, China and Africa with the great Greek historian constantly in his pocket. The author sees

In 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his

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