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Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen · Booklabria

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Out of Africa

Social life and customsManners and customs

Out of Africa

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First published: 1938
Editions: 16 in 3 languages

Synopsis

Karen Blixen went to Kenya in 1914 to run a coffee-farm; its failure in 1931 caused her to return to Denmark where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. Out of Africa is a celebration of her life there; her friendship with the various peoples of the area and her sympathetic response to the landscape and animals are drawn with warmth and unusual clarity. Although the book is pervaded by her sense of loss, Karen Blixen looks back with an unsentimental intelligence to portray a way of life that is now gone forever.

Subjects: Social life and customs
Manners and customs
Continental european fiction
Country life
Indigenous peoples
Safaris
Set in: Kenya
Time: 1895-1963

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16 in 3 languages

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English14 French1 Spanish1

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