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Real-life WWI events that prompted C.S. Forrester to write The African Queen. The "Mimi and Toutou" in question were two small gunboats, commanded by a rather ludicrous figure, one Geoffrey Spicer-Samson of the Royal Navy. Spicer was a thorough eccentric -- and also laughably incompetent in many ways -- yet he managed to assemble an odd (and rather unwilling) crew and make it all the way up the Congo (some 2,800 miles) to Lake Tanganyika. (This journey, obviously, was the genesis of the Forster
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