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The African Queen

Written by: C. S. Forester
Narrated by: Michael Kitchen
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Upon her brother's death, missionary Rose Sayer and Charles Allnutt, disreputable skipper of the African Queen, become allies as, marooned in German Central Africa during World War I, they fight their old launch downriver 'to strike a blow for England'.

©1935 C.S. Forester (P)2014 Audible, Inc.
Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction
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