# In Search Of a Character

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- Book: [In Search Of a Character](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-greene/in-search-of-a-character) ([In Search Of a Character.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-greene/in-search-of-a-character.md))
- Authors: [Graham Green](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-greene)
- Publisher: vintage_digital
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-14-0902-026-4
- Published: 2010-10-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

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.