Book summary

An account of the author's travels in Africa during the 1930s. Discursive and almost surrealistic in tone, it is as much a portrait of Greene himself as of the regions he passes through: Sierra Leone, Liberia, French Guinea, and the west coast.

Media reviews

"No one who reads the book will question the value of Mr. Green's experiment, or emerge unshaken by the penetration, the richness, the integrity of this moving record. No mental armour will be altogether proof against the subtlety of the arrangement and delivery of this material. It is a book to break down the mature and settled, yes, even the complacent heart."