Guiding Allnuts's small steamer the African Queen over the waterfalls of the Ulanga River to a Lake, most likely Victoria, they will torpedo the German fighter Konigin Luise and gain superiority for the British. After burying Samuel, Rose and Charlie concoct a plan to avenge his death. Immediately help arrives in the form of cockney mechanic Charlie Allnut who had been working for the Belgians in Nigasi. Germans fighting the British for control of the interior of the territory murder her brother Samuel. Rose Sayers is deep in the African Congo when World War I arrives on the continent. I had been exposed to the movie starring Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn many times because it is one of my mother's favorite movies, but had never read the 1935 classic until now. After typing classic romance into lists one of the books offered was The African Queen by C. One square is read a classic romance and initially I was thrown for a loss because I do not even read contemporary romance as a genre. For the first time in 2017 I participated in bingo in the group catching up on classics.
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