Out of Africa | Social Concerns
Isak Dinesen's novel, Out of Africa written five years after she returned to her native Denmark, describes Africa as she remembers it: an Eden, a lost paradise and a place of innocent beauty that regrettably changed with the passage of time.
Dinesen begins her work with a simple description of her African home: "I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Equator runs across these highlands, a hundred miles to the North, and the farm lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet." To Dinesen life in Africa was preferable to life in Denmark, where a person's social...
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