by Karen Blixen · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140009132
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«Out of Africa» is a memoir by Karen Blixen about her life in Kenya, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (336 pages, in English).
Karen Blixen settled in Kenya in 1914 to run a coffee plantation and returned to Denmark in 1931, when the business went bankrupt. In these memoirs she evokes life on the farm, the beauty of the Ngong Hills, her dealings with the local population and the surrounding wildlife, with a nostalgic gaze and without idealizing a way of life that has already disappeared.
Originally published in 1937, the book was signed by Karen Blixen under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. First installment of the «Out of Africa» series.
For readers of memoirs, African history and travel literature.
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.
