You can learn more about the world from the Polish journalist and author Ryszard Kapuscinski, who died earlier this year, than most authors we know. Salman Rushdie put it this way: "One Kapuscinski is worth more than a thousand whimpering and fantasizing scribblers."
The Shadow of the Sun is a deeply thoughtful look at contemporary Africa. Imperium tracks the decline of the Soviet Union. He wrote on the Shah of Iran, and Haile Selassie, and on the Angolan Civil War.
There's one last book from the author to come: in June, Knopf will publish Travels with Herodotus, about the author's years as a young reporter, when he first went abroad and began trying to make sense of the world. That impulse became his legacy.
written on Friday Mar 30, 2007
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