Another Day of Life
by Ryszard Kapuscinski | 
The Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuscinski | 
Travels with Herodotus
by Ryszard Kapuscinski | 
Imperium
by Ryszard Kapuscinski | 
Chasing the Devil: The Search for Africa's Fighting Spirit
by Tim Butcher | 
Chasing the Devil
by Tim Butcher | 
Surrender or Starve
by Robert D. Kaplan | 
In Search of King Solomon's Mines
by Tahir Shah | 
Into Africa
by Martin Dugard | 
Behind the Beautiful Forevers
by Katherine Boo | 
In Europe
by Geert Mak | 
The City of Falling Angels
by John Berendt | 
Landmarks
by Robert Macfarlane | 
Cities of Gold
by Douglas Preston |
South with Endurance
by Frank Hurley | 
The Fourth Part of the World
by Toby Lester | 
Amsterdam
by Russell Shorto | 
Maximum City
by Suketu Mehta | 
The Fortune Cookie Chronicles
by Jennifer B. Lee | 
Voices of the Old Sea
by Norman Lewis |
After the deposition of Haile Selassie in 1974, which ended the ancient rule of the Abyssinian monarchy, Ryszard Kapuscinski travelled to Ethiopia and sought out surviving courtiers to tell their stories. Here, their eloquent and ironic voices depict the lavish, corrupt world they had known - from the rituals, hierarchies and intrigues at court to the vagaries of a ruler who maintained absolute power over his impoverished people. They describe his inexorable downfall as the Ethiopian military approach, strange omens appear in the sky and courtiers vanish, until only the Emperor and his valet remain in the deserted palace, awaiting their fate. Dramatic and mesmerising, The Emperor is one of the great works of reportage and a haunting epitaph on the last moments of a dying regime.