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Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there.
- Karen Blixen
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- 1937
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464 reviews 571 followers. December 11, 2019. Out Of Africa is the poignant memoir of Karen Blixen, a Danish woman, who lived on a coffee farm in Kenya for many years. It is not a strict chronological biography, more a rambling series of memories.
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- Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen
Sep 5, 1992 · by Isak Dinesen (Author) 4.6 1,736 ratings. See all formats and editions. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya.
- Karen Blixen
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- Modern Library
Out of Africa, memoir by Danish writer Isak Dinesen, published in English in 1937 and translated the same year by the author into Danish as Den afrikanske farm. It is an autobiographical account of the author’s life from 1914 to 1931 after her marriage to Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, when she managed.
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Mar 21, 2006 · Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi.
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- Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen
About Out of Africa. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya.
Written with astonishing clarity and an unsentimental intelligence, Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever. Report an issue with this product. Print length. 336 pages. Language. English. Publisher. Penguin Classics. Publication date. 27 Sept. 2001. Dimensions. 12.83 x 1.47 x 19.71 cm. ISBN-10. 9780141183336. ISBN-13.
- Karen Blixen
