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Journey without maps / Graham Greene ; introduction by Paul Theroux.

by Greene, Graham, 1904-1991.

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New York : Penguin Books, 2006.

Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 -- Travel -- Africa, West.

Liberia -- Description and travel.

Guinea -- Description and travel.

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2006041982-d.html

Electronic Resource

http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0716/2006041982-b.html

0143039725 (pbk) :

9780143039723 (pbk.)

Penguin classics.

xxiv, 242 p. : map ; 20 cm.

The Way of Africa -- The Cargo Ship -- The Home from Home -- Western Liberia -- His Excellency the President -- Into Buzie Country -- Black Montparnasse -- Mission Station -- "Civilized Man" -- The Dictator of Grand Bassa -- The Last Lap -- Postscript in Monrovia.

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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