ARGONAUT BOOKS

When the great traveller-reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to write about the farthest reaches of his native Poland. The resulting essays brought together here reveal a place as strange as any of the distant lands he visited on foreign assignments: caught between ties to the past and dreams of escape, a country on the edge of modernity. Reviews A peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly KafkaJonathan MillerKapuscinski trascends the limitations of journalism and writes with the narrative power of a Conrad or ...Read More