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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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Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen (Author)In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in...
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Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen (Author)Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable "Out of Africa," which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African...
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The author is a Danish woman who ran a coffee plantation in Kenya from 1914-1931. Out of Africa is a series of vignettes that talk about the people she knew there, the things she experienced, and her love for the continent. Also included in my edition is Shadows of the Grass, a book she... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)
Characters/People edit
- Karen Blixen: Real name of the author, a Danish woman who ran a coffee plantation in Kenya from 1914-1931.
First Sentence edit
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Table of Contents edit
Out of Africa
I. Kamante and Lulu
The Ngong Farm
A Native Child
The Savage in the Immigrant's House
A Gazelle
II. A Shooting Accident on the Farm
The Shooting Accident
Riding in the Reserve
Wamai
Wanyangerri
A Kikuyu Chief
III. Visitors to the Farm
Big Dances
A Visitor from Asia
The Somali Women
Old Knudsen
A Fugitive Rests on the Farm
Visits of Friends
The Noble Pioneer
Wings
IV. From an Immigrant's Notebook
The Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild
The Fireflies
The Roads of Life
Esa's Story
The Iguana
Farah and the Merchant of Venice
The Elite of Bournemouth
Of Pride
The Oxen
Of the Two Races
A War-Time Safari
The Swaheli Numeral System
I Will Not Let Thee Go Except Thou Bless Me
The Eclipse of the Moon
Natives and Verse
Of the Millennium
Kitosch's Story
Some African Birds
Pania
Esa's Death
Of Natives and History
The Earthquake
George
Kejiko
The Giraffes Go to Hamburg
In the Menagerie
Fellow-Travellers
The Naturalist and the Monkeys
Karomenya
Pooran Singh
A Strange Happening
The Parrot
V. Farewell to the Farm
Hard Times
Death of Kinanjui
The Grave in the Hills
Farah and I Sell Out
Farewell
Shadows in the Grass
Farah
Barua a Soldani
The Great Gesture
Echoes from the Hills
Authors & Contributors edit
- Isak Dinesen (Author)
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Publisher: Penguin
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Publication Date: 1954
ISBN: 0679724753
Page Count: 389
Publisher: Penguin
Country: Add the country of publication.
Publication Date: 1954
ISBN: 0679724753
Page Count: 389
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- Dewey: 967.6203
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