Out Of Africa
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good; stained boards.
Out of Africa is a celebrated autobiographical memoir that chronicles the seventeen years Danish author Karen Blixen spent managing a coffee farm on the rolling highlands of Kenya, then British East Africa, in the early twentieth century. Written with lyrical precision and an almost painterly eye for landscape, the book presents an intimate portrait of colonial African life, its people, wildlife, and the vast, untameable terrain that shaped Blixen's very soul. She details her relationships with the Kikuyu and Somali peoples, her deep friendship with the Maasai, and her passionate bond with the land itself, conveying a profound sense of belonging and inevitable loss. The narrative is suffused with elegiac beauty, as Blixen ultimately recounts her heartbreaking departure from Africa following the collapse of the farm, the death of her beloved Denys Finch Hatton, and the end of an era. A cornerstone of world literature, this memoir stands as an enduring testament to one woman's extraordinary life lived on her own terms against an unforgettable African backdrop.
Author: Karen Blixen
Format: Hardback
Published: 1985, Century
Genre: African history
Condition remarks:
Condition: Fair. Jacket: N/A. Page Condition: Good. Markings: No markings. Binding condition: Good; stained boards.
Out of Africa is a celebrated autobiographical memoir that chronicles the seventeen years Danish author Karen Blixen spent managing a coffee farm on the rolling highlands of Kenya, then British East Africa, in the early twentieth century. Written with lyrical precision and an almost painterly eye for landscape, the book presents an intimate portrait of colonial African life, its people, wildlife, and the vast, untameable terrain that shaped Blixen's very soul. She details her relationships with the Kikuyu and Somali peoples, her deep friendship with the Maasai, and her passionate bond with the land itself, conveying a profound sense of belonging and inevitable loss. The narrative is suffused with elegiac beauty, as Blixen ultimately recounts her heartbreaking departure from Africa following the collapse of the farm, the death of her beloved Denys Finch Hatton, and the end of an era. A cornerstone of world literature, this memoir stands as an enduring testament to one woman's extraordinary life lived on her own terms against an unforgettable African backdrop.