Out of Africa
1937 memoir by Karen Blixen / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the book. For the film, see Out of Africa (film). For other uses, see Out of Africa (disambiguation).
Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it in Danish. The book has sometimes been published under the author's pen name, Isak Dinesen.
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Author | Karen Blixen |
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Country | United Kingdom, Denmark |
Language | English, Danish, Swahili |
Genre | Memoir |
Publisher | Putnam (UK); Gyldendal (Denmark) |
Publication date | 1937 |
Media type | Print () |
Pages | 416 |
ISBN | 0-679-60021-3 (hardcover edition) |
OCLC | 25747758 |
967.62 20 | |
LC Class | DT433.54 .D56 1992 |
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