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African Queen
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Title: African Queen
Author: C. S. Forester
ISBN: 9780316289108
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1984
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 257
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher Description: First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending of the book. This tale of unlikely love is thrilling and funny and ultimately satisfying.
Author: C. S. Forester
ISBN: 9780316289108
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Published: 1984
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Number of Pages: 257
Condition: Used Copy
Publisher Description: First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending of the book. This tale of unlikely love is thrilling and funny and ultimately satisfying.
