# The Emperor

Canonical: https://www.bookquiver.com/ryszard-kapuscinski/the-emperor/9780679722038

JSON version (same data): https://www.bookquiver.com/ryszard-kapuscinski/the-emperor/9780679722038.json

![The Emperor](https://quivercdn.com/covers/vintage/ryszard-kapuscinski/the-emperor_978-06-7972-203-8.jpg?v=2026-06-23%2013%3A00%3A06)

- Book: [The Emperor](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryszard-kapuscinski/the-emperor) ([The Emperor.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryszard-kapuscinski/the-emperor.md))
- Authors: [Ryszard Kapuściński](https://www.bookquiver.com/ryszard-kapuscinski)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7972-203-8
- Pages: 176
- Published: 1989-03-13
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

A " sensitive, powerful ... history" (The New York Review of Books) of a man living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury while his people teetered netween hunger and starvation. Haile Selassie, King...