Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.
With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780679724759 (0679724753)
ASIN: 679724753
Publish date: October 23rd 1989
Publisher: Vintage
Pages no: 462
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Kenya
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