The African Queen - C. S. Forester

Category: Action, Adults, Adventure, Classic
Language: English
Keywords: Africa World War I

Written by C. S. Forester
Read by Michael Kitchen
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 24 min
Release Date:10-01-10
Publisher: BBC/Audio-Go now Brilliance Audio

A classic story of adventure and romance - the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katherine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart

As World War I reaches the heart of the African jungle, Charlie Allnutt and Rose Sayer, a dishevelled trader and an English spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by circumstance. Fighting time, heat, malaria, and bullets, they make their escape on the rickety steamboat The African Queen…and hatch their own outrageous military plan.

Originally published in 1935, The African Queen is a tale replete with vintage Forester drama - unrelenting suspense, reckless heroism, impromptu military maneuvers, near-death experiences - and a good old-fashioned love story to boot.