A staggering portrait of a country. It is surely framed by a western approach to politics and storytelling, but Kapuściński's journalism background prevents it from being a lapidary depiction of a troubled country that needs aid and more of a personal/etnographical reserch in a millenary multitude of fates and thoughts.
If the Folio edition had come with all the photos described in the daguerreotypes section it would have been a top-notch edition.