Out of Africa
Ranked #13 in Africa, Ranked #45 in African — see more rankings.
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures,... more
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Brigid Keenan An incredible introduction to Africa, and I read the book when I needed it most. (Source)
Helena Frith Powell I found the book itself inspirational, and I found the fact that a woman had written it doubly inspirational. (Source)
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- #71 in African History
- #99 in Wanderlust
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