Cupid in Africa

Percival Christopher Wren (1875 - 1941)

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)

Genre(s): Action & Adventure Fiction

Language: English

Section Chapter Reader Time
Play 01 Major Hugh Walsingham Greene Kevin Green
00:08:03
Play 02 Mr Charles Stayne-Brooker (or Herr Karl Stein-Brucker) Kevin Green
00:08:35
Play 03 Mrs Stayne-Brooker - and her Ex-Stepson Kevin Green
00:03:47
Play 04 Bertram becomes a Man of War Kevin Green
00:28:01
Play 05 And is Ordered to East Africa Kevin Green
00:29:13
Play 06 Preparations Kevin Green
00:12:20
Play 07 Terra Marique Jactatus Kevin Green
00:30:43
Play 08 Mrs. Stayne-Brooker Kevin Green
00:06:15
Play 09 Mombasa Kevin Green
00:22:35
Play 10 The Mombasa Club Kevin Green
00:16:21
Play 11 Military and Naval Manoeuvres, part 1 Kevin Green
00:22:28
Play 12 Military and Naval Manoeuvres, part 2 Kevin Green
00:21:45
Play 13 Bertram Invades Africa Kevin Green
00:18:41
Play 14 M'paga Kevin Green
00:14:25
Play 15 Food and Feeders Kevin Green
00:26:15
Play 16 Reflections Kevin Green
00:32:15
Play 17 Baking Kevin Green
00:18:48
Play 18 The Convoy Kevin Green
00:18:07
Play 19 Butindi Kevin Green
00:17:28
Play 20 The Bristol Bar Kevin Green
00:23:07
Play 21 More Baking Kevin Green
00:19:16
Play 22 Trial Kevin Green
00:16:05
Play 23 Of a Pudding Kevin Green
00:17:28
Play 24 Stein-Brucker Meets Berram Greene - and Death Kevin Green
00:17:03
Play 25 Mrs. Stayne-Brooker Again Kevin Green
00:09:37
Play 26 Love Kevin Green
00:20:27
Play 27 Love and War Kevin Green
00:23:08
Play 28 Baked Kevin Green
00:20:37
Play 29 Finis Kevin Green
00:02:07