The African Queen
C.S. Forester Audio Book

‘The African Queen’ tells the story of Rose Sayer, a respectable missionary who is in Africa with her brother the Reverend Samuel Sayer, and Charles Allnutt, the hard-bitten and disreputable skipper of the African Queen. Upon her brother’s death, the pair become the unlikeliest of allies as, marooned in German Central Africa during the First World War, they fight their ramshackle old launch, laden with explosives, downriver ‘to strike a blow for England’.