The Cobra's Heart
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2007
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-102555-1 (ISBN)
Penguin Classics (Verlag)
978-0-14-102555-1 (ISBN)
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Allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own.
One of the most brilliant journalists of the postwar world, Kapuscinski (born 1932) spent decades criss-crossing Africa, witnessing the horrors of a continent ravaged by imperialism and its aftershocks. Humane, evocative and magical, The Cobra's Heart makes the case for Kapuscinski as a great writer as well as a great journalist. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
One of the most brilliant journalists of the postwar world, Kapuscinski (born 1932) spent decades criss-crossing Africa, witnessing the horrors of a continent ravaged by imperialism and its aftershocks. Humane, evocative and magical, The Cobra's Heart makes the case for Kapuscinski as a great writer as well as a great journalist. "Great Journeys" allows readers to travel both around the planet and back through the centuries - but also back into ideas and worlds frightening, ruthless and cruel in different ways from our own. Few reading experiences can begin to match that of engaging with writers who saw astounding things: great civilizations, walls of ice, violent and implacable jungles, deserts and mountains, multitudes of birds and flowers new to science. Reading these books is to see the world afresh, to rediscover a time when many cultures were quite strange to each other, where legends and stories were treated as facts and in which so much was still to be discovered.
Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in 1932 in Pinsk, a city that was formerly located in the Kresy Wscodnie (Eastern Borderlands) of the Second Polish Republic and now belongs to Belarus. He was Poland's leading journalist. He died in January 2007.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.2.2007 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Penguin Great Journeys ; No.20 |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 112 x 180 mm |
| Gewicht | 72 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika |
| ISBN-10 | 0-14-102555-7 / 0141025557 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-14-102555-1 / 9780141025551 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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