Out of Africa


From the moment the author arrived in Kenya in to manage a coffee plantation her heart belonged to Africa Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes she spent her happiest years on the farm In this title her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled

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UPC2030311000764
Author Karen Blixen
ISBN 9780241995167
Publisher Penguin Books Ltd
SKU2030311000764

Karen Blixen's "Out of Africa" is the lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails, beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range. 'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills...Up in this high air you breathed easily ...you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be.' From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm, and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. "Out of Africa" is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman, and of a way of life that has vanished for ever. "With its lyrical and luminous picture of Kenya, it launched a million tourist trails". ("Guardian") "A compelling story of passion and a movingly poetic tribute to a lost land". ("The Times"). A work of sincere power ...a fine lyrical study of life in East Africa - Harold Nicolson, "Daily Telegraph" Karen Blixen was born in Rungsted, Denmark, in 1885. After studying art at Copenhagen, Paris and Rome, she married her cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, in 1914. Together they managed a coffee plantation in Kenya until they divorced in 1925. She continued on the farm until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Rungsted in 1931. Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real debut took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English under the pen name, Isak Dinesen. "Out of Africa" (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. 

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