Journey without Maps [Idioma Inglés] - Softcover

Greene, Graham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0143039725 ISBN 13: 9780143039723

Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group, 2006

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Details the author's 1935 journey in search of Liberia, a remote and unfamiliar West African republic founded for released slaves, recalling his journey across the red-clay terrain from Sierra Leone to the coast of Grand Bassa with a chain of porters and his discovery of one of the few areas of Africa untouched by Western colonization. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

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Graham Greene (1904-1991), whose long life nearly spanned the length of the twentieth century, was one of its greatest novelists. Educated at Berkhamsted School and Balliol College, Oxford, he started his career as a sub-editor of The Times of London. He began to attract notice as a novelist with his fourth book, Orient Express, in 1932. In 1935, he trekked across northern Liberia, his first experience in Africa, recounted in A Journey Without Maps (1936). He converted to Catholicism in 1926, an edifying decision, and reported on religious persecution in Mexico in 1938 in The Lawless Roads, which served as a background for his famous The Power and the Glory, one of several “Catholic” novels (Brighton Rock, The Heart of the Matter, The End of the Affair). During the war he worked for the British secret service in Sierra Leone; afterward, he began wide-ranging travels as a journalist, which were reflected in novels such as The Quiet American, Our Man in Havana, The Comedians, Travels with My Aunt, The Honorary Consul, The Human Factor, Monsignor Quixote, and The Captain and the Enemy. In addition to his many novels, Graham Greene wrote several collections of short stories, four travel books, six plays, two books of autobiography—A Sort of Life and Ways of Escape—two biographies, and four books for children. He also contributed hundreds of essays and film and book reviews to The Spectator and other journals, many of which appear in the late collection Reflections. Most of his novels have been filmed, including The Third Man, which the author first wrote as a film treatment. Graham Greene was named Companion of Honour and received the Order of Merit among numerous other awards.

Paul Theroux, an internationally acclaimed travel writer, is also the author of over two dozen novels and works of non-fiction. He divides his time between Cape Cod and the Hawaiian Islands.

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• Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0143039725
• ISBN 13: 9780143039723
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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