Adventure

Cupid in Africa

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  • 1920 first published
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Cupid in Africa is a 1920 adventure fiction novel by Percival Christopher Wren.

A free LibriVox audiobook (8 h 45 min) is available.

About Cupid in Africa

Bertram Greene, brilliant student, aesthete, intellectual and shy, decides to make his military father proud of him at last and joins the colonial Indian Army Reserve as a second Lieutenant at the start of Great War. Feeling a complete fish out of water, he is dispatched to India without any training whatsoever, and is expected to take charge of a company of native soldiers. He is then posted to East Africa to join the British fighting force there, and finds out what real soldiering means. This amusing, and at times harrowing tale gives a comprehensive description of the life and conditions of a soldier in the tropics, obviously written by someone who has experienced them. The author, P. C. Wren, is the author of the famous Beau Geste books. (Summary by Kevin Green)
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Cupid in Africa — LibriVox recording, 8 h 45 min in 29 sections.

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Who wrote Cupid in Africa?

Cupid in Africa was written by Percival Christopher Wren and first published in 1920.

What genre is Cupid in Africa?

It is usually shelved as Adventure.

Is there a free audiobook of Cupid in Africa?

Yes — LibriVox volunteers recorded it; the recording runs 8 h 45 min.

What books are similar to Cupid in Africa?

Readers who like it often enjoy The Valley of Fear, Five Children and It and The Thirty-Nine Steps.

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