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  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241339336
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64
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'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing'

The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland

  • Published: 26 February 2018
  • ISBN: 9780241339336
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 64
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About the author

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in Poland in 1932. As a foreign correspondent for PAP, the Polish news agency, until 1981 he was an eyewitness to revolutions and civil wars in Africa, Asia and Latin America. His books include The Shadow of the Sun, The Emperor, Shah of Shahs, Another Day of Life and Travels with Herodotus. He won dozens of major literary prizes all over the world, and was made 'journalist of the century' in Poland. He died in January 2007.

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