Maggiori informazioni sul libro
In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevera in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 after their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup. By the time he returned to Poland he had witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups and been sentenced to death four times. The Soccer War is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.
Acquisto del libro
The soccer war, Ryszard Kapuściński, William Brand, Bill Buford
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2007
- product-detail.submit-box.info.binding
- (In brossura),
- Condizioni del libro
- Danneggiato
- Prezzo
- 7,96 €
Metodi di pagamento
Qui potrebbe esserci la tua recensione.
- Titolo
- The soccer war
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Editore
- Granta Books
- Pubblicato
- 2007
- Formato
- In brossura
- ISBN10
- 1862079595
- ISBN13
- 9781862079595
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Tema stórico, Storia, Mappe e viaggi, Storie vere, Viaggi, Giornalismo narrativo, Narrativa di viaggio, Storia Militare, Guerre, Regali per le donne, Europa, Africa, Giornalismo e Pubblicistica, Asia, Reportage letterario, Letteratura polacca, America Latina, Algeria, Nigeria, Ghana
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1978
- Titolo originale
- Wojna futbolowa
- Valutazione
- 4,2 su 5
- Descrizione
- In 1964, renowned reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was appointed by the Polish Press Agency as its only foreign correspondent, and for the next ten years he was 'responsible' for fifty countries. He befriended Che Guevera in Bolivia, Salvador Allende in Chile and Patrice Lumumba in the Congo. He reported on the fighting that broke out between Honduras and El Salvador in 1969 after their matches to determine which one of them would qualify for the 1970 World Cup. By the time he returned to Poland he had witnessed twenty-seven revolutions and coups and been sentenced to death four times. The Soccer War is Kapuscinski's story, his eyewitness account of the emergence of the Third World.