Out of Africa (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Karen Christenze Dinesen
- First Published: 1937
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Principal Characters: Karen Blixen, Denys Finch-Hatton, Farah Aden, Kamante Gatura, Berkeley Cole, Ingrid Lindstrom, Bror Blixen
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir, Biography, Nature writing
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Colonialism, Nature, Europe or Europeans, 1920’s, Farms, farmers, or farming, Aristocracy or aristocrats, Life, philosophy of, Life and death
- Locales: Kenya
The Story:
Karen Blixen owned a coffee farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. As she sat at home in Rungstedlund, Denmark, many years later, she remembered her seventeen years in Kenya. Captivated by the beauty of the African landscape and its people, she was struck by the feeling of having lived for a time up in the air. Nairobi was the closest town, twelve miles away, and when Karen and her husband, Bror, first came to Africa, there were no cars. She traveled to and from the farm, Mbogani House, by mule cart. Her able overseer, Farah Aden, helped her make the...
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