Journey without Maps (Classic, 20th-Century, Penguin) - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140185798 ISBN 13: 9780140185799

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1992

Synopsis

His mind crowded with vivid images of Africa, Graham Greene set off in 1935 to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar republic founded for released slaves. Now with a new introduction by Paul Theroux, Journey Without Maps is the spellbinding record of Greene's journey. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by colonization. Western civilization had not yet impinged on either the human psyche or the social structure, and neither poverty, disease, nor hunger seemed able to quell the native spirit.

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Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote west African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by colonization. He found that neither poverty, disease nor hunger seem to be able to quell the native spirit.

From the Back Cover:

"One of the best travel books [of the twentieth] century."
—Norman Sherry

"Journey Without Maps and The Lawless Roads reveal Greene’s ravening spiritual hunger, a desperate need to touch rock bottom within the self and in the humanly created world."
—The Times Higher Education Supplement

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0140185798
• ISBN 13: 9780140185799
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 249