The African Queen / C.S. Forester.
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TextPublication details: Boston, Mass. : Little, Brown, and Co. : Back Bay Books, 2000, c1935.Edition: [Back Bay Books paperback ed.]Description: 246 p. ; 21 cmISBN: - 0316289108 (pbk.) :
- 9780316289108 (pbk.)
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Main Library | Fiction | Forester, C S | Available | 33111005738790 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Little, Brown and Company.