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.
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