The African queen
by C. S. Forester
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Thrown together at the outset of World War I, the spinster sister of a British missionary and derelict captain of the launch, The African Queen, determine to pilot the boat down an unchartered river in an effort to destroy a German gunboat. Setting: German East Africa in 1914.
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Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Man-woman relationships, Women missionaries, Fiction in English, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746, Fiction, general, Africa, fiction, Man-woman relationships, fiction, Large type books, World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746 (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180746, English literature, British, MissionariesShowing 10 featured editions. View all 69 editions?
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Originally published: London: Heinemann, 1935.
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First Sentence
"ALTHOUGH she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had she been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sayer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill."
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English missionary's sister enlists aid of mechanic in blowing up German gunboat on African lake.
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