Read The Emperor

The fall of the Iranian monarchy in 1979 through photographs and fragments; Kapuscinski.

Kapuscinski's forty years reporting Africa, from Ghana's independence to Rwanda.

Kapuscinski's first assignments abroad with the first historian in his pocket.

Russians remember the end of the Soviet Union and the 1990s; Alexievich's chorus.

Lawrence Wright on al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11; the Pulitzer.

Granite stelae up to 33 metres tall marking the tombs of the Aksumite kings, near the chapel said to hold the Ark of the Covenant.

The "Camelot of Africa" — a walled compound of 17th-century stone castles built by Ethiopian emperors.

Ancient Islamic city of 82 mosques, where hyenas are fed by hand at night.