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Ebano - Ryszard Kapuściński, Vera Verdiani
Ebano
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9788807817069 (8807817063)
Publisher: Feltrinelli
Pages no: 277
Edition language: Italian
Series: Penguin Great Journeys 0 (#20)
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Rowena's Reviews
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5.0 The Shadow of the Sun
“The population of Africa was a gigantic, matted, crisscrossing web, spanning the entire continent and in constant motion, endlessly undulating, bunching up in one place and spreading out in another, a rich fabric, a colourful arras.” - Ryszard Kapuscinski, The Shadow of the SunA man I’d unfortunate...
Bettie's Books
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5.0 The Shadow of the Sun
bookshelves: african-continent, essays, one-penny-wonder, nonfiction, war, colonial-overlords, winter-20112012, travel, afr-ghana, published-1998, history, lifestyles-deathstyles, paper-read, translation, afr-tanzania, afr-uganda, afr-kenya, afr-mauritania, afr-ethiopia, afr-nigeria, afr-rwanda, af...
Ms. Margie
Ms. Margie rated it
Stunning. Horrifying. Beautiful.Kapuscinski notes several times that "Africa" as most of us think of it, doesn't exist - it's a construct. In this book he offers a collage of scenes which mirror the diversity of experiences one could have in different places, with different people, in different p...
Bettie's Books
Bettie's Books rated it
5.0
Translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska.Opening - More than anything, one is struck by the light.Page 122 - In the desert, the first thing man sees when he opens his eyes in the morning is the face of his enemy - the flaming visage of the sun.Page 125 - The water, disgusting Saharan water - ...
Tiny Library
Tiny Library rated it
4.0 The Shadow of the Sun (Penguin Celebrations)
I love the Penguin Celebrations series. With this latest acquisition, I now have sixteen out of thirty-six, which is not bad, and every single one I have read has been enjoyable. This one is from the travel and adventure range and is a series of dispatches from Africa written by the Polish journal...
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