Description
Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974. While the fighting still raged, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's leading foreign correspondent, traveled to Ethiopia to seek out and interview Selassie's servants and closest associates on how the Emperor had ruled and why he fell. This "sensitive, powerful. . .history" (The New York Review of Books) is Kapuscinski's rendition of their accounts--humorous, frightening, sad, groteque--of a man living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury while his people teetered netween hunger and starvation.
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/13/1989
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.10w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9780679722038
ISBN10: 0679722033
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 03/13/1989
Pages: 176
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 8.12h x 5.10w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9780679722038
ISBN10: 0679722033
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | General
About the Author
Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is also the author of Imperium, Another Day of Life, and The Soccer War. His books have been translated into 28 languages. Kapuscinski died in 2007.