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Journey without Maps
Graham Greene
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Description for Journey without Maps
Paperback. In 1935, Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast at Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Num Pages: 272 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1HFD; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 128 x 17. Weight in Grams: 196.
The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.
Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually unmapped republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Vintage Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099282235
SKU
9780099282235
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About Graham Greene
Graham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the Spectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for ... Read more
Reviews for Journey without Maps
One of the best travel books this century
Independent
No one who reads this book will question the value of Greene's experiment, or emerge unshaken by the penetration, the richness, the integrity of this moving record
Guardian
His originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the foreign ear and eye for the strangeness ... Read more
Independent
No one who reads this book will question the value of Greene's experiment, or emerge unshaken by the penetration, the richness, the integrity of this moving record
Guardian
His originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the foreign ear and eye for the strangeness ... Read more