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Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

Start date: June 1, 2016

Finish date: August 31, 2016

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Jul 01, 2016 Connie G rated it it was amazing

Shelves: kenya, 1001-books, africa, autobiography-memoir

After seeing the movie "Out of Africa" for the second time recently, I wondered if I would enjoy the book as well. Not to worry, the book is even better since the author was a keen observer and an accomplished storyteller.

Isak Dinesen is the pen name for the Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke who came from Denmark to British East Africa (Kenya) with her husband in 1914. Although they soon separated, Dinesen stayed to run a large coffee plantation near Nairobi. She tells stories about the customs ...more

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Mar 16, 2018 Chinook rated it it was ok

Shelves: africa, 500-women, 1-kindle, 1001

I really wanted to like this. I thought I’d admire the story of a woman running a farm in Africa all by herself. I thought it would be full of brave and fascinating adventures and obstacles. Instead, it’s more about the people she knew, which would have been wonderful if she hadn’t spent her whole time calling the natives primitive and comparing these human beings to animals every second sentence. I know that it was a different time but this isn’t the only book I’ve read from a different time an ...more

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