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Synopsis
A fascinating look at Africa
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Review
Compelling...a story of passion...and a movingly poetic tribute to a lost land (The Times)
About the Author
ISAK DINESEN was the pen-name of Karen Blixen, who 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 went to Kenya to manage a coffee plantation. After their divorce in 1921, she continued to run the plantation until a collapse in the coffee market forced her back to Denmark in 1931.
Although she had written occasional contributions to Danish periodicals since 1905 (under the nom de plume of Osceola), her real début took place in 1934 with the publication of Seven Gothic Tales, written in English under her pen-name. Out of Africa (1937) is an autobiographical account of the years she spent in Kenya. Most of her subsequent books were published in English and Danish simultaneously, including Winter's Tales (1942) and The Angelic Avengers (1946), under the name of Pierre Andrézol. Among her other collections of stories are Last Tales (1957), Anecdotes of Destiny (1958), Shadows on the Grass (1960) and Ehrengard (1963). All of these books are published by Penguin.
Baroness Blixen died in Rungsted in 1962.
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Out of Africa
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. pp. 380. 8vo. Corners bumped, bookplate to front pastedown, ink name facing half-title page; very good- in very good- dustjacket. Seller Inventory # 0105638
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Out of Africa
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
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Eighth Impression. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 380 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Originally published: London : Putnam, 1937. Translated from the Danish. Contents; Kamante and Lulu -- A shooting accident on the farm -- Visitors to the farm -- From an immigrant's notebook -- Farewell to the farm. Subjects; Blixen, Karen 1885-1962. Dinesen, Isak 1885-1962 Homes and haunts Kenya. Classic Travel Writing. Manners and customs. Women coffee growers Kenya ; Biography. Country life Kenya colony and protectorate. Kenya colony and protectorate Native races. Authors, Danish 20th century Biography. Social life and customs. Indigenous peoples. Intellectual life. Coffee plantations Kenya. Kenya Description and travel. Kenya Native races. Kenya Race relations. Kenya Rural regions Social life 1913-1931 Personal observations. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 419623
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Out of Africa
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
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Eighth Impression. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, not price-clipped. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 380 pages ; 21 cm. Notes; Originally published: London : Putnam, 1937. Translated from the Danish. Contents; Kamante and Lulu -- A shooting accident on the farm -- Visitors to the farm -- From an immigrant's notebook -- Farewell to the farm. Subjects; Blixen, Karen 1885-1962. Dinesen, Isak 1885-1962 Homes and haunts Kenya. Classic Travel Writing. Manners and customs. Women coffee growers Kenya ; Biography. Country life Kenya colony and protectorate. Kenya colony and protectorate Native races. Authors, Danish 20th century Biography. Social life and customs. Indigenous peoples. Intellectual life. Coffee plantations Kenya. Kenya Description and travel. Kenya Native races. Kenya Race relations. Kenya Rural regions Social life 1913-1931 Personal observations. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 419623
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OUT OF AFRICA
Seller: Aamstar Bookshop / Hooked On Books, Colorado Springs, CO, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. US DR glass: This is the Seventh impression, 1971 of the 1937 British first edition. Previous owner's name at the top of the front inside cover. Dj has a thin brown mark at the two inches of the spine, else dj appears near fine. Light tan spine, dark title. Seller Inventory # March 16-26-1