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Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

Start date: July 1, 2018

Finish date: July 31, 2018

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Nov 06, 2010 Laura rated it really liked it

Shelves: audio-books, 1001-books-you-must-read-before-you, read-2011, book-and-movie, scandinavian-literature

Episode 1 : The Cuckoo
Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the East Africans who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself.

In 1913, Karen travels to Kenya to marry her second cousin and start a farm in Africa.

Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding
Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom ...more

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Jan 31, 2018 Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ... rated it liked it

Shelves: bios-memoirs, 1001-books

The book is not a love letter to Robert Redford (ummm, I mean Denys), but it is a love letter to Africa. I wanted to love it as I remember loving the movie so much. But the book reads a little too much like a diary rather than a memoir. It is slightly bumpy and disjointed.

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Jul 20, 2022 Nicole Meadows rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: denton, women-writers, ownacopy, audio, classics, rory-gilmore-reading-challenge, waterstonebooks

I would say this is 3 1/2 stars. It started off so interesting and then I just lost interest. I feel like this would be a better read to physically read then listen to.

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