The African Queen (Paperback)

A classic story of adventure and romance—the novel that inspired the legendary movie starring Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

As World War I reaches the heart of the African jungle, Charlie Allnut and Rose Sayer, a disheveled trader and an English spinster missionary, find themselves thrown together by circumstance. Fighting time, heat, malaria, and bullets, they make their escape on the rickety steamboat The African Queen....and hatch an outrageous military plan of their own.

Originally published in 1935, The African Queen not only is packed with vintage Forester drama—unrelenting suspense, reckless heroism, impromptu military maneuvers, leaky boats, near-death experiences—but is also a good old-fashioned love story.