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Out of Africa (Paperback)
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Out of Africa (Paperback)
Series: Penguin Essentials
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List price R279
Loot Price R236
Discovery Miles 2 360
You Save R43 (15%)
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Karen Blixen's Out of Africa is the lyrical and luminous memoir of
Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully
repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'I had a farm
in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . Up in this high air
you breathed easily . . . you woke up in the morning and thought:
Here I am, where I ought to be.' 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, 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. 'With its lyrical and luminous picture of Kenya,
it launched a million tourist trails' Guardian 'A compelling story
of passion and a movingly poetic tribute to a lost land' The Times
A work of sincere power ... a fine lyrical study of life in East
Africa - Harold Nicolson, Daily Telegraph Karen Blixen was born in
Rungsted, Denmark, in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris
and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in
1914. Together they managed a coffee plantation in Kenya until they
divorced in 1925. She continued on the farm until a collapse in the
coffee market forced her back to Rungsted in 1931. Although she had
written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905
(under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real debut took place in
1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English
under the pen name, Isak Dinesen. Out of Africa (1937) is an
autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. All of
her subsequent books were published in both English and Danish,
including Winter's Tales (1942) and The Angelic Avengers (1936).
Among her other collections of stories are Last Tales (1957),
Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and
posthumously Ehrengard (1963). In the 1950s she was mentioned
several times as a candidate to receive the Noble Prize in
Literature. Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962. In 1991 her
house was opened as The Karen Blixen Museum.
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