by Karen Blixen · Feltrinelli Traveller · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807804502
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«La mia Africa» is Karen Blixen's memoir, published by Feltrinelli Traveller in paperback (306 pages, in Italian).
An autobiographical work in which Karen Blixen evokes the years she spent on a coffee plantation in the Ngong highlands, near Nairobi. The narrative combines portraits of the landscapes, animals and inhabitants of the region —Kikuyu, Somali and Maasai— with a reflection on destiny and the encounter between cultures.
First part of the «Out of Africa» series. Italian translation by Lucia Drudi Demby; the original work was published in 1937.
A read for those who enjoy travel memoirs and portraits of life in colonial Africa.
Baroness Karen Christentze von Blixen-Finecke was a Danish author who wrote in Danish and English. She is also known under her pen names Isak Dinesen, used in English-speaking countries; Tania Blixen, used in German-speaking countries; Osceola, and Pierre Andrézel.
