Moja Afrika
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9788634302073 (8634302075)
Publish date: 1986
Publisher: Globus, Zagreb
Pages no: 322
Edition language: Croatian
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Africa,
Book Club,
Biography Memoir
This is a memoir of the author's experiences running a plantation in Kenya. It is colonial literature, which would make it automatically bad to some people. It is not in any way a romance, and is really an account of the sights and sounds of Africa and an account of the ways and manners of the abo...
Out of Africa is the memoir of a Dutch woman's seventeen years on her coffee plantation in Kenya from 1914 to 1931. I had never read Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) before--and I haven't seen the film based on this book--but I could immediately tell I was in the hands of a poet. Her description of Afric...
bookshelves: autobiography-memoir, re-read, african-continent, danish-root, biography, play-dramatisation, nonfiction, published-1937, afr-kenya Read from April 26 to 29, 2011, read count: 2 ** spoiler alert ** How lovely, a revisit via R4 starts MondayIn 1913, Karen travels to Kenya to marry he...
Karen Blixen's beautiful memoir about her years in Africa. Gorgeously written, Out of Africa is evocative of a the bygone era of European colonialism.
One day I hope to write a book about my years spent in Africa! Till then read this.
11 years ago
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