Another Day of Life

Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost'. In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy, dogged and cruel'. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions. Zusammenfassung In 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of his experiences there, of a city and a country that seemed, for a prolonged period, to have taken leave of the world, to enter a nightmare of anarchy.

Product details

• Authors: William Brand, Ryszard Kapuscinski
• Assisted by: William Brand (Translation), Brand William (Translation), Katarzyna Mrockowska-Brand (Translation)
• Publisher: Penguin Books Uk
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 07.06.2001
• EAN: 9780141186788
• ISBN: 978-0-14-118678-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Modern Classics; Penguin Classics
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Travel > Travelogues, traveller's tales > Africa; Angola, Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, HISTORY / Revolutionary, Memoirs, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century, HISTORY / Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, African History, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Civil wars