The African Queen
by C. S. Forester
The classic story of adventure and romance is perhaps known as the novel that inspired the legendary film starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart. When World War I reaches the heart of the African jungle, Charlie Alnut and Rose Sayer, a disheveled merchant and English spinster missionary, find themselves abandoned by circumstances. Battling time, heat, malaria and bullets, they escape to the African queen, an old, dirty and unreliable steamer.
