01497cam a2200325 i 4500 367602481 ER5 20190107120000.0 170801t20001935||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 83083340 9780316289108 paperback $14.99 0316289108 paperback $14.99 ER5 rda Forester, C. S, 1899-1966, (Cecil Scott.) The African Queen / C.S. Forester. London : Back Bay Books, Little, Brown, and Company, 2000. ©1935. 246 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "The African Queen tells the story of Rose Sayer, a respectable missionary who is in Africa with her brother the Reverend Samuel Sayer, and Charles Alnutt the hard-bitten and disreputable skipper of the African Queen. Upon the death of her brother the pair become the unlikeliest of allies as marooned in German Central Africa during the First World War, they fight their ramshacle old launch, laden with explosives, downriver to strike a blow for England"--NoveList Plus. 20190107. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Boats and boating Fiction. Africa, Central Fiction. Historical fiction. War fiction. World War, 1914-1918 Fiction.