Greene's account of an arduous, half-mapped trek through Sierra Leone and Liberia in 1935, walking for weeks through remote bush villages with his cousin Barbara and a train of native carriers, in search of something he can never quite name.
Books mentioned in Journey Without Maps (14)
The Black Arrow by Robert Louis Stevenson: “Quoted store advertisement: "Novels, Works of Hall Caine, Marie Corelli... by Stevenson : Treasure Island, The Black Arrow..."”
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson: “Same quoted store advertisement listing real novels for sale.”
The Deemster by Hall Caine: “Same quoted store advertisement: "by Caine, The Deemster, A Son of Hagar, The Woman Thou Gavest Me..."”
A Son of Hagar by Hall Caine: “Same quoted store advertisement.”
A Village in a Valley by Beverley Nichols: “Something like A Village in a Valley by Mr. Beverley Nichols, which was in the small library.”
Dwarf's Blood by Edith Olivier: “Miss Edith Olivier's Dwarfs Blood lay on the table.”
Ships That Pass in the Night by Beatrice Harraden: “...three books that were in the library down below: Ships that Pass in the Night—can you guess the others?”
Tzigane by Eleanor Smith: “One reads strange books in a ship... like Lady Eleanor Smith's Tzigane.”
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám by Omar Khayyám: “I was given a book of ritual, bound in limp leather like an Omar Khayyam at Christmas-time.”
The Castle by Franz Kafka: “"Olga in Kafka's novel, it will be remembered, tried to construct... an image of Klamm." (Olga and Klamm are characters from The Castle.)”
King Solomon's Mines by H. Rider Haggard: “...there are a thousand names for it, King Solomon's Mines, the 'heart of darkness' if one is romantically inclined...”
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad: “Same passage, invoking the real Conrad novella by its famous phrase.”
The Inner Journey by Kurt Heuser: “...or more simply, as Herr Heuser puts it in The Inner Journey...”