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Mimi and Toutou's Big Adventure, The Bizarre Battle of Lake Tanganyika
by Giles Foden
- HISTORY
- 2006
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- 272 PAGES
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Fodden's gripping account of the real-life story of the events that inspired the classic film The African Queen. He chronicles the exploits and adventures of Geoffrey Spicer-Simson, given the task of trekking overland with two gunboats, Mimi and Toutou, to defeat the Germans on Lake Tanganyika in WWI.
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