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De Historiën van de Griekse historicus Herodotos (ca. 484 - ca. 425 v. Chr.) was het lijfboek van Ryszard Kapuscinski. Hij noemde het 'de allereerste reportage uit de wereldliteratuur'. Kapuscinski deelt met Herodotos een ongebreidelde belangstelling voor andere culturen, tradities en leefwijzen. Net als hij wilde hij daarover berichten op grond van eigen waarneming, en authentieke geschiedenis schrijven. In Reizen met Herodotos vervlecht de Poolse onderzoeksjournalist zijn eigen observaties op zijn reizen door India (1956), China (1957), Egypte, Soedan, Kongo en Senegal (1960), Ethiopië, Tanzania en Algerije (1965) en Iran (1979) met die van zijn klassieke voorganger. Het levert fascinerende, onvergetelijke reisliteratuur op.

Tells about the people of Africa throughout author's career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, this book sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations.

'Imperium' captures the memories of Soviets who talked about their lives in the terror from which they were emerging and their fears for the future. Kapuscinski's account of this epic journey is set to become one of the most important books of the decade.

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 toppled virtually overnight. From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanatacism, and revolution.

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 characteristic cogency and emotional immediacy, he recounts the stories behind his official press dispatches—searing firsthand accounts of the frightening, grotesque, and comically absurd aspects of life during war. The Soccer War is a singular work of journalism.

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 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions.

The text examines the reign and recent fall of Ethiopia's Haile Selassie through eyewitness accounts of former members of the Emperor's circle.

The traveler-reporter finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland than in any of the distant lands he has visited

'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 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 place just as strange as the distant lands he visited. From forgotten villages to collective farms, Kapuscinski explores a Poland that is post-Stalinist but still Communist; a country on the edge of modernity. He encounters those for whom the promises of rising living standards never worked out as planned, those who would have been misfits under any political system, those tied to the land and those dreaming of escape.

Offers a look at the Western idea of the Other - the non-European or non- American. Looking at this concept through the lens of the author's own encounters in Africa, Asia and Latin America, this title traces how the West has understood the Other from classical times to colonialism, from the age of enlightenment to the postmodern global village.