The African Queen lockwood & co. from the historical to the

from the historical to the experiential

"first times" -- these always entertaining (and sometimes hilarious) pieces share what it takes to succeed

plus illustrations

when health and economic crises and partisanship are challenging the news media

Based on new archival material and exclusive interviews

The African Queen lockwood & co. from the historical to theFirst published in 1935, C. S. Forester's classic romantic adventure is a tale of opposites attracted. Allnut and Rose, a disreputable Cockney and an English spinster missionary, wend their way down a river in Central Africa in a rickety, asthmatic steam launch, and are gradually joined together in a mission of retaliation against the Germans. Fighting time, heat, malaria and bullets, the two have a dramatic rapprochement before the explosive ending