African Queen - Forester, C. S.
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First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending of the book. This tale of unlikely love is thrilling and funny and ultimately satisfying.

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Produktbeschreibung
First published in 1935, C.S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending of the book. This tale of unlikely love is thrilling and funny and ultimately satisfying.
Autorenporträt
Cecil Scott Forester, 1899 in Kairo geboren, wuchs in England auf und besuchte die Guy's Hospital Medical School, um Medizin zu studieren. Doch schon bald wandte er sich ganz der Schriftstellerei zu. 1926 erzielte er seinen ersten großen Erfolg. Horatio Hornblower macht er mit seinem elfbändigen Romanzyklus zum bekanntesten Seehelden aller Zeiten in der maritimen Literatur und wurde selbst weltberühmt. Nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg lebte der begnadete Erzähler in Kalifornien, wo er 1966 in Fullerton verstarb.