"In this short, simple, extraordinarily intelligent book, Kapuściński explores what it is to be European, to be non-European, to be colonised, to be the coloniser, to have or to impose an identity."
–Jason Burke, Observer "A powerful, quasi-religious, meditation on the power of humbling oneself in the face of the unknown."
–Independent "Kapuscinski's case for humanity to accept and acknowledge 'otherness' is cogent and invites further contemplation."
–Financial Times "Eloquent ... remarkably thoughtful and compressed."
–Washington Post Book World "The true master of journalism."
–Gabriel Garcia Marquez "Few have written more beautifully of unspeakable things. Few have had his courage, almost none his talent. His books changed the way many of us think about nonfiction."
–New York Times Book Review
