Ryszard Kapuscinski: 20 books

Un reportaje mítico de Ryszard Kapuscinski, el mejor periodista del siglo XX, sobre los cinco días de enfrentamientos en junio de 1969 entre Honduras y Guatemala. En junio de 1969, Honduras y El Salvador se enfrentaron por la clasificación para el Mundial que se celebraría al año siguiente...

Ryszard Kapuscinski's last book, The Soccer War -a revelation of the contemporary experience of war -- prompted John le Carre to call the author "the conjurer extraordinary of modern reportage." Now, in Imperium, Kapuscinski gives us a work of equal emotional force and evocative power: a personal,...

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 pursuing...

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...

A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection   As British rule came to an end in Ghana, Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski journeyed to the country to witness the birth of a new republic.   Here Kapuscinski shares stories and insights about the time he spent crisscrossing Ghana in 1957. From meeting with...

The master of literary reportage reflects on the West’s encounters with the non-European In this distillation of 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...

In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro—and chaos.Angola,...

Allá por 1982, Ryszard Kapuscinski empezó a tomar notas sueltas y aparentemente inconexas en torno a lo que sucedía a su alrededor, sazonándolas con grandes dosis de reflexión acerca del destino del hombre y el mundo contemporáneos. No tardó en descubrir que el fragmento no sólo se ajustaba...

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,"...

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...

Las andanzas de Kapuscinski, reportero del semanario Polityka por la Polonia profunda, fructificarían en 1962 con la publicación de su primer libro, La jungla polaca, escrito entre las décadas cincuenta y sesenta del siglo XX, entre viaje y viaje africano. El ambiente literario era favorable a...

El autor nos ofrece un fascinante relato de recuerdos y exploraciones de la Unión Soviética absolutamente imprescindible, un fascinante reportaje polifónico, uno de los grandes libros de la década. Kapuscinski realizó entre 1989 y 1991 un largo viaje por los vastos territorios de la Unión Soviética....

En la década de los cincuenta, mientras recorre Polonia, un Kapuscinski aprendiz de reportero vive obsesionado con cruzar la frontera. No logra ir a Checoeslovaquia pero, a cambio, la redacción del diario en el que trabaja lo envía a la India. El corresponsal parte con un libro, la Historia de...

This account of the rise and fall of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie is “an unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally compassionate book” (Salman Rushdie, Man Booker Prize–winning author). After Haile Selassie was deposed in 1974, Ryszard Kapuściński—Poland’s top foreign correspondent—went...