Out of Africa

Out of Africa
ISBN-10
0140282610
ISBN-13
9780140282610
Series
Out of Africa
Category
Authors, Danish
Pages
329
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Author
Karen Blixen

Description

Karen Blixen went to Kenya in 1914 to run a coffee farm; its failure in 1931 caused her to return to Denmark where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. OUT OF AFRICA is a celebration of her life there; her friendship with the various peoples of the area and her sympathetic response to the landscape and animals are drawn with warmth and unusual clarity. Although the book is pervaded by her sense of loss, Karen Blixen looks back with an unsentimental intelligence to portray a way oflife that is now gone forever.

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