 | The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (Penguin Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £5.00 Fantastic book about the fall of Haile Selasee.Kings of Kings live off the blood of the people.
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 | Shah of Shahs (Penguin Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.22 Upheaval in the Shah's Iran,the rise of Khomeni,and a frightened Polish journalist.Great!
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 | Another Day of Life (Penguin Modern Classics) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £3.50 My favourite,the lone citizen of a socialist country in the Angolan Civil War.The description of roadblock etiquette is amazing.
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 | The Soccer War by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £6.99 / Used from: £4.49 "The Football War" for non-Americans.War in Central America,plus notes from Africa and Asia in the 1960s.
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 | Imperium by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy used from: £5.95 Now free to write about the other post-1945 empire,Kapuscinski roams around the ex-USSR when it was in ti's death throes.
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 | The Shadow of the Sun: My African Life by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £3.58 Life in post-independence Africa.His critical love for Africa and Africans shines through.
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 | The Cobra's Heart (Penguin Great Journeys) by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy new: £4.99 / Used from: £0.01 "Excerpts from "Shadow Of The Sun".If you don't have the time for the original,try this.Boo,hiss to Penguin,who didn't advertise that this was indeed already published material.
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 | Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buy used from: £34.70 Published posthumously,in some ways it seems as though Mr.K was trying to wrap up his life's work in this,a great book about how he was guided in his writing by the Greek historian.
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