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.
Another Day of Life" is Kapuscinski's dramatic account of the three months he spent in Angola at the beginning of its decades' long civil war. The capital, Luanda, is occupied only by those not fortunate enough to flee. When even the dogs abandoned by the Europeans leave, Kapuscinski decides...

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.Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.

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.

The best of Kapuscinski's published poems, offered for the first time in English.

Alsbesten Reporter der Weltwrdigte Spiegel online Ryszard Kapuscinski nach seinem Tod im Januar 2007. Seine Bcher wie Knig der Knige und Meine Reisen mit Herodot gehren inzwischen zum Kanon der Weltliteratur. Die Vorlesungen, die Kapuscinski im Jahr 2004 am Wiener Institut fr die Wissenschaften vom Menschen hielt, waren noch einmal seinem groen Thema gewidmet: der Begegnung mit dem Anderen. Kapuscinski erlutert, welche Bedeutung dieser Begriff Emmanuel Levinas fr seine Arbeit hatte und erfllt die philosophische Kategorie anhand seiner Erfahrungen als Reiser, Journalist und Publizist mit...