Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass,9780679724759

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

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Edition: Revised
ISBN13: 9780679724759
ISBN10: 0679724753
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1989-10-23
Publisher(s): Vintage
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Summary

With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.

Author Biography

Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in 1885. After her marriage in 1914 to Baren Bror Blixen, she and her husband lived in British East Africa, where they owned a coffee plantation. She divorced from her husband in 1921 but continued to manage the plantation for another ten years, until the collapse of the coffee market forced her to sell the property and return to Denmark in 1931. There she began to write in English under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen. Her first book, and literary success, was Seven Gothic Tales. It was followed by Out of Africa, The Angelic Avengers (written under the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel), Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass, and Ehrengard. She died in 1962.

Table of Contents

Out of Africa
Kamante and Lulu
The Ngong Farm
3(18)
A Native Child
21(19)
The Savage in the Immigrant's House
40(21)
A Gazelle
61(20)
A Shooting Accident on the Farm
The Shooting Accident
81(13)
Riding in the Reserve
94(11)
Wamai
105(15)
Wanyangerri
120(16)
A Kikuyu Chief
136(17)
Visitors to the Farm
Big Dances
153(12)
A Visitor from Asia
165(5)
The Somali Women
170(11)
Old Knudsen
181(8)
A Fugitive Rests on the Farm
189(9)
Visits of Friends
198(7)
The Noble Pioneer
205(12)
Wings
217(22)
From an Immigrant's Notebook
The Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild
239(1)
The Fireflies
240(1)
The Roads of Life
241(2)
Esa's Story
243(3)
The Iguana
246(2)
Farah and the Merchant of Venice
248(2)
The Elite of Bournemouth
250(1)
Of Pride
250(1)
The Oxen
251(3)
Of the Two Races
254(1)
A War-Time Safari
255(7)
The Swaheli Numeral System
262(1)
``I Will Not Let Thee Go Except Thou Bless Me''
263(2)
The Eclipse of the Moon
265(1)
Natives and Verse
265(1)
Of the Millennium
266(1)
Kitosch's Story
267(5)
Some African Birds
272(3)
Pania
275(2)
Esa's Death
277(3)
Of Natives and History
280(3)
The Earthquake
283(1)
George
284(1)
Kejiko
285(1)
The Giraffes Go to Hamburg
286(3)
In the Menagerie
289(3)
Fellow-Travellers
292(1)
The Naturalist and the Monkeys
293(2)
Karomenya
295(3)
Pooran Singh
298(2)
A Strange Happening
300(3)
The Parrot
303(4)
Farewell to the Farm
Hard Times
307(13)
The Death of Kinanjui
320(9)
The Grave in the Hills
329(18)
Farah and I Sell Out
347(17)
Farewell
364(9)
Shadows on the Grass 373

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