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...
This was a total disappointment. I had heard about the movie, but somehow never got around to watching it. A couple of months ago I found the book, and I make it rule to try to read the book first, as well as judge the book and movie separately. I've still got to watch the movie, but only because I ...
This is a beautiful memoir about Dinesen's life on a coffee plantation in Africa. I read this while on a trip to Tanzania and just loved it. She has some amazing stories about her life that are beautifully written and clearly show a love of not only the majesty of the country but the people. I di...
The book meanders. Dinesen moves from memory to memory, going forward and backward in time. She truly describes a love for Africa. However, missing from the book is much of her ACTUAL life, i.e. relationships. Towards the close, her emotions are more apparent, but this expression lacked throughout m...
'I had a farm in Africa...' It's a very famous opening line, and most people of a certain age will undoubtedly have seen the film and will therefore mentally hear it in Meryl Streep's distinctive accent. This is a little piece of history, like looking at the past through the wrong end of the telesco...
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