Journey Without Maps (Vintage Classics)
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In Graham Greene set off to discover Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves. Trivia About Journey Without Maps. Theroux's main point is that Greene was a "dilettante" and a "lucky" traveler, a point Theroux has made in other Greene introductions as well. Published 1 year ago. The author begins his exploration by talking about his way to Africa I, 1 , the cargo ship he traveled in I, 2 , and his brief trip through Sierra Leone I, 3. I did manage to complete it after picking at it for several weeks, which felt like a bit of an achievement to be honest, but I won't be rushing about to read more Graham Greene any time soon!
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It's not easy to compare it with any other book, for me; it's essentially a travel diary, an account of a rather irrational trek across Liberia that Green undertook in , accompanied only by his cousin and the team of hired bearers who carried their hammocks, water filtration gear, etc. The book is fairly short and episodic, though it occasionally drifts into memories of England; even a couple of the author's dreams are included, nor do they seem out of place; the recounting is largely chronological, but it's always in limited detail--these are sketches--and much of what Greene recalls here is strange, perplexing, suggestive--these are, after all, a man's memories of far-away places, in a time before the Second World War.
While the journey is occasionally dangerous, this is not a thriller: For the most part, the journey is simply exhausting--especially near its end. The trek doesn't end up "proving" anything; it simply happened. The treat here of course is Graham Greene's prose. It's a constant frustration to me and surely others! Still, this is English writing of the very finest sort, so straightforward and unembroidered, and yet of somehow such near-magical lucidity--if you've read Greene before, you will know what I mean; if you haven't, well, at least there is now this little bonbon available.
I expect to read it many more times. 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. 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,.
In , in the first flush of success of his first acclaimed novel, Greene took off to explore the concept of Africa, building on his notions of adventure from childhood reading. Identifying never-colonized Liberia as the most authentically uncivilized of African destinations, he set off, with his year-old female cousin, a troop of native bearers and virtually no knowledge or experience of trekking. His four weeks of walking a twelve-inch path through the Liberian wilds, stopping at villages overnight, makes an interesting and engaging account, never sentimentalized, and with much thoughtful insight.
He gives plentiful narrative detail, but always is overwhelmingly concerned with the psychic reverberations of Africa, and his perceptions of primitivism, in his own life and outlook. He is not unaware of the irony of his deliberate quest for un-self-consciousness flowing from external reflections on the "natural" human world. This book is an interesting counterpoint to observations of modern-day Liberia, for which progress over the ensuing seven decades remains elusive. A few more of the roads have been paved, but most of the country remains bare soil, now soaked in more blood and mayhem than the quaint natives and masked, raffia-skirted tribal "devils" of could have dreamed of.
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