African Queen
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adventure novel
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books set during the First World War
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Product details
- ISBN 9780753820797
- Weight: 180g
- Dimensions: 128 x 196mm
- Publication Date: 01 Nov 2006
- Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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A classic tale of love and adventure from the author of the Captain Hornblower series.
The film adaptation, which starred Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart, became one of the most popular films ever made.
The African Queen is an old, dirty, ugly, unreliable steamboat - not the kind of boat anyone would take down a dangerous river through the jungles of Central Africa. But Rose Sayer and Charlie Allnut do just that.
Why do they do it? The First World War has just begun, and Rose has a crazy plan. She and Charlie set off down the river and come close to death many times, but they survive all dangers - except the danger of falling in love.
Cecil Scott Forester was born in 1899 in Cairo and educated in England. He went to Hollywood during the opening years of World War II to help write and produce 'propaganda' films that would convince U.S. filmgoers that the they should take the side of the British and Allies in the War, which led to such films as Eagle Squadron (1941). He is most famous for his celebrated Hornblower series. He died in 1966.
