The Soccer War

Informationen zum Autor Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in 1932 in Pinsk in eastern Poland and educated in Warsaw. His first book, The Polish Bush , which reported from the Polish 'frontier', appeared in 1962 and was an immediate best-seller. He travelled widely throughout the Third World as a foreign correspondent, storing up, as he once said in an interview, the experiences for the books that would come later. The first of these books, published in 1968, was based on a journey through Islamic Russia. This was followed by books on Africa, Latin America and South Africa. His first book to be translated into English was The Emperor , based on the last days of Haile Selassie. His other books in English include Another Day of Life , about the war in Angola, and Shah of Shahs , about the revolution in Iran. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Imperium , the story of his travels across the dying empire of the Soviet Union in 1989, which is also published by Granta Books. Ryszard Kapuscinski died in Warsaw in January 2007 at the age of seventy-four. Klappentext In 1964 Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevara in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 around their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup. By the time he returned to Poland he had witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups. The Soccer War is Kapuscinski's eyewitness account of some of the most defining moments in twentieth-century history. Zusammenfassung 'Kapuscinski is the conjurer extraordinaire of modern reportage, and The Soccer War is a splendid example of his magic' John Le Carré.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ryszard Kapuscinski, Ryszard Kapuscinski Kapuscinski
• Con la collaborazione di: William Brand (Traduzione), Brand William (Traduzione)
• Editore: Granta Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.05.2007
• EAN: 9781862079595
• ISBN: 978-1-86207-959-5
• Dimensioni: 128 mm x 197 mm x 15 mm
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