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RYSZARD KAPUSCINSKI

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Publisher:
PENGUIN
Year of publication:
2018
ISBN:
978-0-241-33932-9
Pages:
49
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'Like rotting stakes in a forest clearing' The great journalist of conflict in the Third World finds an even stranger and more exotic society in his own home of post-War Poland

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