Out of Africa
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly...
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From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. "Out of Africa" is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780141183336 (0141183330)
Publish date: September 27th 2001
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 330
Edition language: English
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.
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