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Judy
Jul 19, 2014 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
I decided to read the book before revisiting the classic film starring Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn. It is set in central Africa during the First World War, where missionary Rose Sayer is left on her own following the death of her brother, Samuel. Cockney mechanic Charlie Allnut rescues her from the approaching Germans and the two of them set off on an impossibly daring journey down river aboard his boat, the African Queen. They decide to launch their own attack on a German gunboat, eve ...more
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