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Item number:	140357227979
Item location:	Santa Cruz, CA, United States
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Author:	Giles Foden	Publisher:	Random House Inc
ISBN-10:	1400041570	Subject:	History
ISBN-13:	9781400041572	Topic:	Africa
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2005	Condition:	Like New
Special Attributes:	1st Edition, Illustrated

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Length:	241 pages
Height:	9.3 in.
Width:	6.5 in.
Thickness:	0.8 in.
Weight:	20.0 oz.

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The Whitbread Award—winning author of The Last King of Scotland brings his extensive knowledge of Africa to his first work of nonfiction: the incredible true story that inspired the classic film The African Queen. When the First World War breaks out, the British navy is committed to engaging the enemy wherever there is water to float a ship–even if the body of water in question is a remote African lake and the enemy an intimidating fleet of German steamers. The leader of this improbable mission is Geoffrey Spicer-Simson, the oldest lieutenant commander in the navy, whose career thus far had been distinguished by two sinkings. His seemingly impossible charge: to trek overland through the African bush hauling Mimi and Toutou–two forty-foot mahogany gunboats–and defeat the Germans on Lake Tanganyika. Spicer-Simson sets forth on a lunatic 2,800-mile journey with a band of cantankerous, insubordinate Scotsmen, Irishmen and Englishmen. After going into battle wearing a skirt and becoming the god of an African tribe by showing them his tattoos, he is acclaimed a hero. But the truth about the battle is somewhat more complex. With its powerfully evoked landscape, cast of hilariously colorful characters and remarkable story of hubris, ingenuity and perseverance, Mimi and Toutou’s Big Adventure is history at its most entertaining and absorbing.
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"Foden is an accomplished novelist...and at times this story reads like an amalgam of Evelyn Waugh and Joseph Conrad. The truth is stranger than any fiction, and the pleasure of this book lies in its unbelievable veracity: the vivid recreation of a lost time when eccentricity flourished and Britannia ruled the waves with a couple of little boats,a nice skirt and plenty of laxatives." New York Times Book Review - Ben MacIntyre (04/10/2005) '[A] delightful slice of backwater history....Giles Foden...writes with wit and wears his scholarship lightly." Literary Review - Tom Stacey (10/01/2004)

A STATED FIRST AMERICAN EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, HARDCOVER/DUSTJACKET IN PRISTINE CONDITION WITH RAVE REVIEWS: VERY COLLECTIBLE AND INSPIRED THE CLASSIC FILM "THE AFRICAN QUEEN" WITH HUMPHREY BOGART AND KATHERINE HEPBURN/ DUSTJACKET IS UNRIPPED, UNCLIPPED AT $24.00/ VOLUME IS UNMARKED, UNREAD, TIGHT, CLEAN AND SQUARE: VERY COLLECTIBLE AND WOULD MAKE A FINE GIFT!

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