African Queen - Book

First published in 1935, C. S. Forester's The African Queen is a classic romantic adventure about two unlikely companions: Allnutt, a disreputable Cockney, and Rose, an English spinster missionary.

Together they travel down a river in Central Africa aboard a rickety, asthmatic steam launch and are drawn into a mission of retaliation against the Germans, fighting heat, malaria and bullets along the way. The novel was the basis for the famous film. This is a paperback edition from Hachette Books.