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Journey Without Maps (Penguin Classics) Paperback – June 27, 2006

by Graham Greene (Author), Paul Theroux (Contributor)
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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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"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

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"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

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Penguin Publishing Group; Reprint edition (June 27, 2006)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 242 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0143039725
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0143039723
  • Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
  • Grade level ‏ : ‎ 12 and up
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.3 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.6 x 7.7 inches
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Henry Graham Greene OM CH (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English novelist and author regarded by some as one of the great writers of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted, in 1967, for the Nobel Prize for Literature. Through 67 years of writings, which included over 25 novels, he explored the ambivalent moral and political issues of the modern world, often through a Catholic perspective.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Well He Did Find Greeneland
Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2013
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It may seem odd to contemporary readers that a travel book written 70 years ago, would still resonate with readers today. However, a perceptive travel book usually is as much about the author as it is about the customs and peoples and places he visits or she, or in this case they.

In the case of Greene, this type of book is a veritable treasure trove of information about the creative process and the influences that went into some of his later fiction. In this book in particular I hear Scobie's rain in the "Heart of the Matter", or Query's meandering river in "A Burnt Out Case." Even the format of the book which begins as all good travel books should, with the very beginning of the trip, in this case England, hints at the sea voyage of Brown, Smith, and Jones in "The Comedians" as they reach their destination in Haiti.

Yet this is not simply a collection of influences and descriptive details that will be used by some well meaning graduate student on his journey through academia, but also an insightful story about travel at the time. I cannot fathom why anyone would wish to put not only himself, but his female cousin, through such a forbidding journey but it does illustrate what unique characters Greene and family truly were.

If you are familiar with Greene's work and have not read this book does so and read the signposts of his future work. If you just want to experience what travel was like in central Africa almost a century ago this book will put you in another's steps.

It is curious as has been mentioned that so few of Greene's books are available for e readers which I find disconcerting. Also I did check my old copy of the Penguin edition and I am at a loss to explain why the introduction was not in the electronic version with may present an obstacle to some readers. I fear that Penguin is among those publishing houses which are combating the e-reader trend,
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3.0 out of 5 stars Greene travel into the interior of Liberia and Sierra Leone at a time when both countries were struggling to develop.
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2017
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It's a fascinating insight into the difference between the early developing towns of coastal Southern Africa and the largely (at the time) untouched interior. But we hear almost nothing of Greene's travelling companion which left this reader feeling that this narrative is missing something. There also seems to be no reason for the arduous trip Greene and his unfortunate porters undertook, so any element of compassion and empathy are lost.
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4.0 out of 5 stars In the heart of darkness, a ray of light
Reviewed in the United States on February 28, 2007
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Graham Greene is a famous 20th C novelist ("The Orient Express") who also wrote a few travel accounts. This is his first, when he was 31 years old and left Europe for the first time in his life to experience the uncivilized "dark heart of Africa" by traveling through the back country of Liberia in 1935. It was a 4-week, 350-mile walk, mostly through an unchanging tunnel forest path, ending each day in a primitive village. He had about a dozen black porters who would carry him in a sling, although he walked much of the way.

It's written with a very "old school" perspective, with one foot in the 19th (or 18th) century of romantic colonial imperialism, and one foot in the pre-war 1930s perspective of deterioration, rot and things falling apart. Heavy whiskey drinking, descriptions of the festering diseases of the natives, and plethora of bothersome insects, the run down European outposts and a motley cast of white rejects fill many descriptive pages.

It reminds me a lot of Samuel Johnson's "Journals of the Western Isles" (1770s) when Johnson, who had never left England in his life, decided to go to Scotland to see what uncivilized people were like. Just as Johnson brought Boswell who would go on to write his own version of the trip, Greene brought his female cousin Barbara Greene (who remains unnamed in the book and largely unmentioned), who went on to write her own version of the trip in the 1970s called "Too Late to Turn Back", which mostly contradicts Grahams version.

I can't say I totally enjoyed this book, I found Greene's attitude irritating - but therein lies its value, as a snapshot of prewar European zeitgeist. It is reminiscent of "Kabloona" (1940), another prewar travel account to an uncivilized place (Arctic Eskimos) by a young European aristocrat, who also is deeply inward looking and finds a new perspective and appreciation for the "cave man" people he meets. It's very much a transition period between prewar and post-war attitudes and the fluctuation's back and forth, the sense of things falling apart, but also new-found perspective, make it a challenging but interesting work.
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Piers Zvegintzov
5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful writing.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 27, 2022
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Wonderful writing. Read it in Ganta, Liberia, this week. Ganta has grown, but the author would still recognise much of daily village life and ritual.
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Biswajit M.
5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
Reviewed in India on September 6, 2018
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Captivating.
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Scott
1.0 out of 5 stars FORGET IT!
Reviewed in Canada on March 20, 2014
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Not recommended, Not a good story.
Huge adventure travel reader but could not get this story to flow.
Tried 3 or 4 times to pick up and continue reading but just couldn't,
Sorry to the writer but this book lacks everything an adventure book should.
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Kindle Customer Helga Lawrence-ploschke
5.0 out of 5 stars vintage Green
Reviewed in Australia on October 26, 2014
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vintage Green, wonderfully descriptive, brilliant
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4.0 out of 5 stars Interesting
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 23, 2021
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It seems quite dated at first but as usual Greene's narrative takes you there and shows you colonial England at is best, or worst depending on your viewpoint. A good read
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