I Dreamed of Africa - Softcover

Gallmann, Kuki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140287442 ISBN 13: 9780140287448

Publisher: Penguin, 2000

Synopsis

At the age of twenty-five, Kuki Gallman, divorced and badly injured in a devastating car accident, left Italy to convalesce in Africa with the man who would become her second husband. Enchanted by the land, they established a vast ranch on the Laikipia plateau in Kenya. But Africa's splendor came with a price. Filled with pain and joy, beauty and drama, Gallman's haunting memoir "captures perfectly the magic of Kenya" (The New York TImes Book Review).

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Review:

Powerful, poetic, unbearably moving: I wept (Clare Francis)

'This is a book that belongs on a shelf with the memoirs of Olive Schreiner, Elspeth Huxley, Beryl Markham – and with Out of Africa Judith Thurman

Ms Gallmann captures perfectly the magic of Kenya, creating an almost overwhelming picture of beauty and drama, pain and joy, death and resurrection . . . Vividly reminiscent of Isak Dinesen (New York Times)

About the Author:

Kuki Gallman was born near Venice and studied at the University of Padua. Fascinated by Africa since her childhood, she visited Kenya first in 1970, and returned to live there in 1972 with her husband and son. As a tribute to their memory she founded The Gallman Memorial Foundation which explores new ways of combining human development and environmental conservation. She lives in Kenya with her daughter and eight dogs.

About this edition

• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0140287442
• ISBN 13: 9780140287448
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336