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"One of the best travel books this century." - "Independent"
""Journey Without Maps" and "The Lawless Roads" reveal Greene's ravening spiritual hunger, a desperate need to touch rock bottom both within the self and in the humanly created world." - "Times Higher Education Supplement"
""Journey Without Maps" and "The Lawless Roads" reveal Greene's ravening spiritual hunger, a desperate need to touch rock bottom both within the self and in the humanly created world." - "Times Higher Education Supplement"
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Graham Greene's incredible journey to an unchartered land
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32 of 33 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The other reviewer is right to call this account a slog, but that is precisely what Greene's journey was. He decided to journey through a land where a white man is seen perhaps twice a decade, to people who live a simple life.
If you're looking for a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat novel of semi-truths this is not the book for you. If you have an interest in West Africa, Liberia, native living, superstition, colonialism, exploration, and generally Greene as a person this book is good. I found digesting in two chunks a more managable read.
Certainly very different to Greene's other writings, but for me gave an interesting perspective on an unusual country and a remarkable man.
If you're looking for a thrilling, edge-of-your-seat novel of semi-truths this is not the book for you. If you have an interest in West Africa, Liberia, native living, superstition, colonialism, exploration, and generally Greene as a person this book is good. I found digesting in two chunks a more managable read.
Certainly very different to Greene's other writings, but for me gave an interesting perspective on an unusual country and a remarkable man.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I bought my copy through Amazon seller 'The Ardent Reader. A lovely old book, my copy dating from 1953. The book is written in the style of a bygone era and requires the reader to 'adjust' his/her reading style in order to enjoy it properly. I had to re-read many passages in order to glean the correct impression/message Greene was trying to convey. It is an excellent read, descriptive in it's writings conjuring up mental images of adventurers of old and 'Darkest Africa' as it was perceived to be at the time.
With many trials and tribulations to contend with from disease, lack of sanitation, the need to carry everything overland (including Greene himself at times), shortages of food and last but not least running short of Scotch whisky towards the latter part of the journey Greene conjures up a magical but dark, forboding and mysterious land.
In summation this is an immensely enjoyable written account of what one would consider to be a gentleman traveller/explorer of a bygone age venturing abroad into the unknown. Highly recommended ...if you can adjust to Greenes style of writing.
I am grateful to Tim Butcher whose own journey and subsequent book 'Chasing The Devil', which is an immensely inspiring read, encouraged me to read Journey without maps.
With many trials and tribulations to contend with from disease, lack of sanitation, the need to carry everything overland (including Greene himself at times), shortages of food and last but not least running short of Scotch whisky towards the latter part of the journey Greene conjures up a magical but dark, forboding and mysterious land.
In summation this is an immensely enjoyable written account of what one would consider to be a gentleman traveller/explorer of a bygone age venturing abroad into the unknown. Highly recommended ...if you can adjust to Greenes style of writing.
I am grateful to Tim Butcher whose own journey and subsequent book 'Chasing The Devil', which is an immensely inspiring read, encouraged me to read Journey without maps.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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I have just been lent a very old hard back copy of this and am going to buy it. I am not an avid travel book reader so cannot compare it with many others; but it gives an insight into the writer, into a land and its people at a previous time, and a point of view which is beguiling and sometimes strange and uncomfortable. I would like to know what reactions west african readers would have.
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