Too Late to Turn Back (ePub)

Barbara and Graham Greene in Liberia (Sprache: Englisch)

Autor: Barbara Greene

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It had been Graham Greene's idea

to explore tropical West Africa.

The map of Liberia was virtually blank,

the interior marked 'cannibals'. It was a far cry from the literary London of 1935,

and the result of the 350-mile trek was the...

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It had been Graham Greene's idea

to explore tropical West Africa.

The map of Liberia was virtually blank,

the interior marked 'cannibals'. It was a far cry from the literary London of 1935,

and the result of the 350-mile trek was the masterclass in travel writing that is Journey Without Maps. But the gifted author was not travelling alone. His cousin Barbara had, over perhaps a little too much champagne, rashly

agreed to go with him. Unbeknown to him, she also took up pen and paper on their long and arduous journey.

Too Late to Turn Back is the amusing, mock-heroic and richly evocative adventure of a young woman who set out from the world of Saki and the Savoy Grill armed only with a cheery stoicism and an eye for an anecdote. From her exasperation at her cousin's refusal to pull his socks up to her concern over his alarmingly close scrape with death, from her yearning for smoked salmon to the missionary who kept a pet cobra, what emerges is a surprisingly refreshing and

charming travelogue of comic misadventure, fizzing with good.

Autoren-Porträt von Barbara Greene

Barbara Greene (1907-1991) was born in Brazil of an English father and a German mother, and educated at Sidcot School in Somerset. After her expedition to Liberia,
she married Count Rudolf Strachwitz,
later German Ambassador to the Vatican. She published several books, and had two children and five grandchildren, and came to divide her time between Bavaria and the island of Gozo, Malta, where she devoted her time to helping
the handicapped.