Double Asymmetric
The Title you're after is "The Cannibal Queen"
There's been a thread previously about favourite authors, books etc so perhaps you could do a search through the archives to save going all through the list agin.
But If you missed that "Ernest K Gann" featured high in the list another popular one was "Harald Penrose."
"A gift of Wings" a collection of short stories by "Richard Bach" has a list of some of the authors favorites in one of the stories, which pointed me towards the above authors and others which were well worth reading.
