My wonderful boyfriend returned to Poland. Any famous Pole that visits Africa?

My wonderful boyfriend has returned home to Poland to see his family and will probably be there for a while trying to figure things up. I miss him so much I want to send him some things to just let him know i'm always thinking of him. He's so intelligent and fun, i want some help to find stuff that would reflect that but preferably in Polish.

I need to know of some Polish authors.
Is there a famous Pole that goes to Africa and hangs out with the tribes. He really likes him and I wanna know if he has written anything else?

Wacław Korabiewicz for instance.
He traveled Africa mostly on his foots or hitchhicking.
He once sid: One wouldn't believe how small the world is and how people are similar to each other unless one would travel it by foot.

Africa is a big land. What part of this land do you mean?

You might be talking about Cejrowski.. but I'm not sure..

I don't know aaaaaarrrggh. But! but that was boyh instieful and helpful. He is just intrested that sorta thing and I wanna look like I know what I doing by sending a book in Polish. Thankyou

If he is into travelling or reading about travelling you can buy something not necessarily polish :)

Also, it could be Ryszard Kapuściński. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kapu%C5%9Bci%C5%84ski

What dose Matto Grosso mean?

This is most likely the guy, but where do you intend buying his book ?

Take frd,s advice and possibly get Michael Palin,s " Around the world in 80 days ".
( book or dvd ).

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mato_Grosso

It's a region in Brazil.

I'm so thick, i thought it was Polish that was missing thr £ or ł for instance.

No worries Squirely, you are trying to find out, nobody can fault you for that.

Joseph Conrad.

Ryszard Kapuscinski. A cult Polish writer. His books are really popular and available on Amazon.


The horror, the horror!

Nika is right. I have the book Travels with Herodotus in English. Superb!

Is he the beardy fella,looks a bit like Frazier? If so,yes,cool geezer from what I remember :)

edit,maybe not then.....er,mods!!!!! bin this in random,yeah as I cant remember the name of said "beardy ,fraizer lookalike"....:)

Is?? Was, you mean :)

yea great book, read it recently as well..

He was a brave and insightful man. I really enjoyed his various commentaries and the spirit to take on challenges without money or security.

Great man,read all is books, I think. Dervla Murphy( Irish travel writer on a bike) was/is a brave woman as well.

Henryk Sienkiewicz travelled to Africa in 1890 and wrote the non-fiction book Letters From Africa as well as the children's novel In Desert And Wilderness which was set in Egypt and the Sudan. I read the latter and it was rather silly as it had a Polish boy taming an African elephant and making it his steed as well as fearlessly confronting the Mahdi.

And of course stopped off on the way....

Conrad's 'Heart of Darkness' was a pioneering book about travels in Africa...Actually 'Apocalypse Now' used it as a kind of jumping off point.

Leon Xiążę Sapieha

Lasy Itury; Wspomnienia z podróży.

antoranz.net/CURIOSA/ZBIOR2/C0303/10-QZC04088_ucho.HTM

and Eustachy Sapieha
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eustachy_Sapieha

Safari. Polowania w Afryce Wschodniej i Południowej

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkady_Fiedler

beinganomad.com/arkady-fiedler/