Ryszard Kapuściński debuted as a poet in Dziś i jutro at the age of 17 and has been a journalist, writer, and publicist. In 1964 he was appointed to the Polish Press Agency and began traveling around the developing world and reporting on wars, coups and revolutions in Asia, the Americas, and Europe; he lived through twenty-seven revolutions and coups, was jailed forty times, and survived four death sentences. During some of this time he also worked for the Polish Secret Service, although little is known of his role.
The book containing Kapuściński's converstions with students and pupils in Bolzano in October 2006. This is also a book about last foreign journey - the first, 50 years earlier, and the last started in Rome. kapuściński had few tricks to break the ice between him and natives: a) eat everything given to you b) learn even few words in native language c) find out how to treat women in the culture you're staying in.