The African Queen (G K Hall Perennial Large Print Book)

by C . S . Forester (Author)

• Used

  Hardcover
  1994

  $79.42

• Used

  Paperback
  1980

  $3.72

  An English spinster joins a gallant cockney on his dilapidated boat to journey down the Nile to try to catch a German commander.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1953

  $7.11

• New

  Paperback
  1984

  $20.92

  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.