Bibliograph

Journey without maps, Graham Greene ; introduction by Paul Theroux

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Journey without maps, Graham Greene ; introduction by Paul Theroux

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxiv)

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

maps

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Journey without maps

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

63473070

Responsibility statement

Graham Greene ; introduction by Paul Theroux

Series statement

Penguin classics

Summary

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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