One of the best travel books this century Independent No 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 Guardian His 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 Journey Without Maps and The 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 Times Higher Education Supplement From the Publisher WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY PAUL THEROUX From the Back Cover The iconic writer's travel log from the uncharted shores of West Africa. About the Author Graham Greene was born in 1904.