- Fiction, World War, 1914-1918, Man-woman relationships, Women missionaries
English missionary's sister enlists aid of mechanic in blowing up German gunboat on African lake.
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- Author
- C. S. Forester
- First published
- January 1986
- Pages
- 198
- Publisher
- Random House Inc, Chivers Press, Seix Barral
- Editions
- 69
- Language
- Spanish, English
- ISBN
- 9798362389956
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- Fiction
- World War, 1914-1918
- Man-woman relationships
- Women missionaries
- Fiction in English
- World War (1914-1918) fast (OCoLC)fst01180746
- Fiction, general
- Africa, fiction
- Man-woman relationships, fiction
- Large type books
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- English literature
“ALTHOUGH she herself was ill enough to justify being in bed had she been a person weak-minded enough to give up, Rose Sayer could see that her brother, the Reverend Samuel Sayer, was far more ill.”
Cecil Scott Forester, an Englishman, was born in Cairo in 1899, the son of a British army officer. He was educated in London, and for a time he studied medicine. After a World War I stint in the infantry, however, he decided to be a poet. This was a shortlived pursuit and he soon turned to biography and fiction. He then wrote many best-selling novels—African Queen and The General among them—before he wrote the first of his Hornblower stories in 1937. That first book was Beat to Quarters, chronologically the fifth volume in tracing the career of Hornblower. In 1940 Forester moved to Berkeley, California, where he lived for many years between his World War II and postwar travels. In April of 1
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