Out of Africa Download

ISBN: B00005473X
Title: Out of Africa Pdf

Danish countess Karen Blixon, known as Isak Dineson, ran a coffee plantation in Kenya in the years when Africa remained a romantic and formidable continent to most Europeans. Out of Africa is her account of her life there, with stories of her respectful relationships with the Masai, Kikuyu, and Somali natives who work on her land; the European friends who visit her; and the imposing permanence of the wild, high land itself. Stage and television actress Julie Harris delivers a reading that is emotionally charged and reflective, recreating Dinesen's lively appreciation for the land she loved so much.

The Female Hemingway Here is an unexpected entry for the feminism reading list. Unlike Meryl Streep’s rather silly character in the movie, Baroness Blixen is a remarkably capable woman. She manages a 600 acre coffee farm, runs transport for the war, works with civil authorities and tribal leaders, and helps her neighbors the Masai by shooting the occasional lion.Blixen’s writing is realistic because it’s autobiographical, and a realist writer in Africa naturally invites comparison with her contemporary, Ernest Hemingway. She is not a professional, though, with Hemingway’s carefully pared paragraphs. Her descriptions are beautiful, as well as precise. If you’re looking at the book on Amazon, you can see what I mean from the first few pages.Out of Africa is a heartfelt memoir, a collection of vignettes. So, not great art but still worth a read just for the author’s style and sensibility.this was a wonderful read. While the second part is a little ... As someone currently living in Africa and who just took a vacation to Kenya, this was a wonderful read. While the second part is a little harder to get through because it is episodic, I enjoyed the richness of Blixen's language, and her understanding of Africa. She understood the people she lived and worked with, and her appreciation of their culture shines through her writing. Reading this after having seen her house was a real treat; I could imagine Karen walking through each room and looking out towards her beloved hills. If you love Africa, this is a gripping read that you should make time for at some point in your life.Shadows of the Past A trip to Kenya is incomplete without reading this book. Her descriptions are honest and delightful and give so much insight into the character of the land I would be lost without it. Her observations on the Kikuyu people hold as true today as they did then. The only way to really understand the Somali people is to read what they were like before colonization and see how little they have changed. Africa of old is the Africa of late, only with different clothes and better technology. That which was enchanting about them still enchants, that which was terrifying or pathetic remains the same. I have walked her estates and sat where she sat. I have driven through the Kikuyu lands she begged and bartered with the government to give to her once loyal workers. The town bustles and prospers, all because of her behind the scenes successful negotiations. I have lived with the Somali and can attest to their loyalty as individuals well as their fierceness when aroused in a group. She predicted her book might become a historical document someday, and I assure you it is. Looking over the valley of Nairobi from the Ngong Hills is a thrilling experience and a sad one at the same time. Sad that a woman who planned to die and be buried in Africa was taken from the home she loved and thrust back to where she hailed. We are the benefactors of her exile. Her book stands as monument to her own charity and a looking glass into a time forgotten.

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