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OUT OF AFRICA
by Dinesen Isak
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
New York: Random House, 1938. First edition, U.S. issue. 8vo, original orange cloth, spined in black, spine gilt lettered and decorated, gilt flamingo on upper cover. In the scarce African motif dustjacket. 389. A fine copy, the dustjacket with only the lightest edge-wear and mellowing. FIRST EDITION OF A LITERARY CLASSIC OF AFRICAN LIFE.
“The author..gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of her county and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee three in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Whales o Knudsen, the old charcoal burner who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors.. and of Lulu, the little Gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievable ladylike and beautiful.”
“The author..gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of her county and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee three in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Whales o Knudsen, the old charcoal burner who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors.. and of Lulu, the little Gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievable ladylike and beautiful.”
Synopsis
Out of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume used by the Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then 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 is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire.
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- Bookseller
- Buddenbrooks, Inc.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30763
- Title
- OUT OF AFRICA
- Author
- Dinesen Isak
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
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