{"product_id":"journey-without-maps","title":"Journey Without Maps","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greene, Graham\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBrand:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Classics\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber Of Pages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRelease Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 23-04-2002\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Number:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780099282235\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDetails:\u003c\/b\u003e Product Description      \u003cbr\u003e\nWITH A FOREWORD BY TIM BUTCHER AND AN INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX In 1935 Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Crossing the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast at Grand Bassa with a chain of porters, he came to know one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonisation.\u003cbr\u003e\n      Review      \u003cbr\u003e\nOne of the best travel books this century ―\u003cbr\u003e\nIndependent\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nNo 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 ―\u003cbr\u003e\nGuardian\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nHis 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 -- V. S. Pritchett\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nJourney Without Maps and\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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 ―\u003cbr\u003e\nTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\n      From the Inside Flap      \u003cbr\u003e\nGraham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote west African republic founded for released slaves. 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. He found that neither poverty, disease nor hunger seem to be able to quell the native spirit.\u003cbr\u003e\n      From the Back Cover      \u003cbr\u003e\n“One of the best travel books this century.” –\u003cbr\u003e\nIndependent\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n“\u003cbr\u003e\nJourney Without Maps and\u003cbr\u003e\nThe 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.” –\u003cbr\u003e\nTimes Higher Education Supplement\u003cbr\u003e\n      About the Author      \u003cbr\u003e\nGraham Greene was born in 1904. He worked as a journalist and critic, and in 1940 became literary editor of the\u003cbr\u003e\nSpectator. He was later employed by the Foreign Office. As well as his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, three books of autobiography, two of biography and four books for children. He also wrote hundreds of essays, and film and book reviews. Graham Greene was a member of the Order of Merit and a Companion of Honour. He died in April 1991.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nPaul Theroux was born in Medford, Massachusetts, in 1941, and published his first novel, Waldo, in 1967. He wrote his next three novels, Fong and the Indians, Girls at Play and Jungle Lovers, after a five-year stay in Africa. He subsequently taught at the University of Singapore, and during his three years there produced a collection of short stories, Sinning with Annie, and highly praised novel Saint Jack. His other publications include The Black House (1974), a novel; The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia (1975), an account of his journey by train from London to Tokyo and back; The Family Arsenal (1976); The Consul's File (1977); Picture Palace (1978; winnner of the Whitread Literary Award); A Christmans Card (1978; The Old Patagonian Express (1979); World's End and Other Stories (1980); London Snow (1980); The Mosquito Coats, which was the Yorkshire Post Novel of the Year for 1981 and the joint winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; The London Embassy (1982); The Kingdom by the Sea (1983); Doctor Slaughter (1985); Sunrise with Seamonsters (1985); The Imperial Way (1985); O-Zone (1986); Riding the Iron Rooster (1988); My Secret History (1989) and Chicago Loop (1990). 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