Out of Africa (Time reading program special edition) - Softcover

Dinesen, Isak

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0809435985 ISBN 13: 9780809435982

Publisher: Time-Life Books, 1980

Synopsis

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 blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.

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This edition is set from the first American edition of 1937 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.

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About the Author

Karen Blixen (17th April 1885 - 7th September 1962) was a Danish author who wrote in Danish, English and French, also known by the pen name Isak Dinesen. Blixen married her cousin Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke in 1914 and moved with him to Kenya where they set up a coffee plantation. They divorced in 1921 and Blixen remained in Kenya for another ten years recording her experiences in her best-known work Out of Africa. In 1931 Blixen returned to Denmark where she would live until her death in 1962.

Edition details

• Publisher: Time-Life Books
• Publication date: 1980
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0809435985
• ISBN 13: 9780809435982
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 380