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 ...
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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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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I read Greene's "The Lawless Roads" before reading "Journey Without Maps," perhaps should have reversed the order. In "Maps" Greene maintains a careful, almost reporter-like distance between himself and the account of his trip through Liberia of the mid 1930's; in "Lawless" his prose is less formal and closer to his experiences in Tabasco and Chiapas. "Maps" is an amazing book because of Greene's beautiful writing and equal-opportunity respect and/or loathing for humans. If you like travel writing and would like to know some of the roots of Chatwin, Sebald, and even to some extent Frazier and Wheeler, "Maps" is a great place to start. Caveat Emptor: Like "Lawless", "Maps" is not precisely a happy book. If you read it when, for example, you are ill, such as with flu (as I read it), you will be in awe of the writing even as it intensifies your sense of illness! Greene is at his writing best when feeling his worst (or remembering the feeling), and he felt pretty badly walking the Liberian bush.
