The Emperor

Name: The Emperor
Author: Ryszard Kapuściński

by Ryszard Kapuściński

Portrait of Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie and his power and isolation

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Ryszard Kapuściński

Kapuściński was the greatest literary journalist of the 20th century, reporting on the collapse of empires and the birth of nations in Africa, Asia, and Latin America with the precision of a historian and the lyricism of a poet.

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