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The Cobra's Heart

By - Kapuściński, Ryszard
Floor - Floor 4
Published - Penguin, London, 2007
ISBN 10 - 0141025557
ISBN 13 - 9780141025551
Book Status - 6 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Travel
Shelf No - 2
Call Number - 916.043 KAP
Physical Description - 96 pages ; 19 cm.
Book Information
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 Heartmakes 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 civilisations, 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.

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