Ryszard Kapuściński

"Ryszard Kapuscinski is considered among the most important journalists of the 20th century." "What was not known in the English-speaking world, however, was that Ryszard Kapuscinski was also a poet. I Wrote Stone brings together a selection of poems from his two previously published collections, offering them to English readers for the first time. Kapuscinski's is a thoughtful, philosophical verse, often aphoristic in tone and structure, and as one would expect, engaged politically, morally and viscerally with the world around him."--BOOK JACKET.

From the renowned journalist comes this intimate account of his years in the field, traveling for the first time beyond the Iron Curtain to India, China, Ethiopia, and other exotic locales.In the 1950s, Ryszard Kapuscinski finished university in Poland and became a foreign correspondent, hoping to go abroad -- perhaps to Czechoslovakia. Instead, he was sent to India -- the first stop on a decades-long tour of the world that took Kapuscinski from Iran to El Salvador, from Angola to Armenia. Revisiting his memories of traveling the globe with a copy of Herodotus' Histories in tow, Kapuscinski describes his awakening to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of new environments, and how the words of the Greek historiographer helped shape his own view of an increasingly globalized world. Written with supreme eloquence and a constant eye to the global undercurrents that have shaped the last half-century, Travels with Herodotus is an exceptional chronicle of one man's journey across continents.From the Trade Paperback edition.

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 astudy that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he 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. It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft.

Reportaż Ryszarda Kapuścińskiego wydany w formie książki o rewolucjach w Iranie, poczynając od I wojny światowej, przez panowanie szacha Rezy Pahlawiego, jego następcy Mohameda Rezy, do rewolucji Chomeiniego w Iranie w 1979 roku.

Le 14 juillet 1969, une guerre éclate entre le Honduras et le Salvador. Les forces aériennes bombardent les villes, les armées de terre s'affrontent. Vingt milliers de morts et blessés. La raison de ces massacres ? Au match retour de qualification pour la coupe du monde, le Salvador a battu le Honduras par 3 à 0...Kapuscinski est sur place. Il est au Katanga huit ans plus tôt, quand on annonce la mort de Patrice Lumumba. A Alger auprès de Ben Bella, quand Boumediene réussit son coup d'Etat. En Ethiopie, au Nigeria, en Afrique du Sud, en Angola, partout où les hommes et les peuples s'acharnent à s'entretuer. Si le journalisme est un genre mineur, l'auteur d'Ebène l'élève au rang d'art suprême. Rien n'égale, dans ses chroniques, la précision du regard, la justesse du trait, l'intelligence et la vivacité du style, son ironie critique et son humour.

Study of the power of Ethiopian emperor Hailie Selassie, as he created informants, rivalries, and his image as sole benefactor. Describes the strengths and flaws of autocracy. A firsthand account of how he governed his country and why he fell from power in 1974.

Ax, who has always believed that he is the only non-infested Andalite on Earth, discovers that there are others trying to survive until help finally comes.