Out of Africa
by Isak Dinesen
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Recommended by 1 source and appears in About Denmark, Most Recommended Books, and Fiction.
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a fourthousandacre 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 biggame hunter Denys FinchHatton, for ...
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