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Journey Without Maps
- Author
- Graham Greene
- Narrator
- Kris Dyer
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 10 December 2020
- Run Time
- 10 hours 18 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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Brought to you by Penguin.
The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.
WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX
Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually uncharted republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Journey Without Maps is regarded as a masterclass in travel writing.
© Graham Greene 1936 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Critics Review
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One of the best travel books this century
Independent
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No one who reads this book will question the value of Greene's experiment, or emerge unshaken by the penetration, the richness, the integrity of this moving record
Guardian
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His originality lay in his gifts as a traveller. He had the foreign ear and eye for the strangeness of ordinary life and its ordinary crises
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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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Details
- Author
- Graham Greene
- Narrator
- Kris Dyer
- Duration
- 10 hours 18 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 December 2020
- ISBN
- 9781473580619
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Classic travel writing
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa. WITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUXLeaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually uncharted republic on the shores of West Africa. This captivating account of his arduous 350-mile journey on foot - a great adventure which took him from the border with Sierra Leone to the Atlantic coast at Grand Bassa - is as much a record of one young man's self-discovery as it is a striking insight into one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation. Journey Without Maps is regarded as a masterclass in travel writing.© Graham Greene 1936 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
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