Two African Journals: 'Congo Journey' and 'Convoy to West Africa'
To Graham Greene, "Africa will always be the Africa of the Victorian atlas, the blank unexplored continent the shape of the human heart."
'In Search of a Character' contains two African notebooks: 'Congo Journal', which records Graham Greene's travels in 1959, and his stay at the yonda leper colony in the jungle which inspired the story for 'A Burnt-Out Case'. 'Convoy to West Africa' describes Greene's voyage in a cargo boat during the Second World War, from Liverpool to Freetown, Sierra Leone, the setting for 'The Heart of the Matter'.
