Graham Greene was only 30 when he embarked on his first adventure beyond Europe, sponsored by the Anti-Slavery and Aborigines Protection Society, which he immortalised in his classic travel book Journey Without Maps. It took him and his cousin Barbara across Sierra Leone by train and truck, and then through Liberia on an epic overland trek. In 2008 Butcher set out to follow in their footsteps, hiking for 350 miles through rainforest and malarial swamps. Greene was not ashamed to articulate his love for danger, something Butcher connects with as he faces his demons from his time as a war correspondent in Africa, when he had received death threats from Charles Taylor's regime in Liberia and two fellow journalists had been killed during the war in Sierra Leone. He is the first to admit a certain "ego-driven Alpha Male" swagger, but his book is a multi-layered and thought-provoking account of the attractions of danger and his encounters with the devastation of ritual violence, child soldiers, blood diamonds and the "devil" guarding remote jungle communities.