Journey Without Maps
Author: Graham Greene
The iconic writer’s travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa.,,Leaving Europe for the first time in his life, Graham Greene set out in 1935 to discover Liberia, then a virtually unmapped 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 th….Read More
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