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Author Blixen, Karen, 1885-1962, author

Title Out of Africa / Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)
Edition Illus. edition
Published Camberwell, Vic. : Penguin, 2011
Camberwell, Victoria : Penguin, 2011, c1937
©1937

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Description 329 pages ; 18 cm
Series Popular Penguins
Popular Penguins
Summary In 1914 Karen Blixen went to Kenya to run a coffee farm; its failure in 1931 caused her to return to Denmark where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. A poignant farewell to her beloved farm, this work describes her friendships and her affection for the animals and landscape
Analysis Kenya Social conditions 1914-1931
Notes Originally published: London : Putnam, 1937
Translated from the Danish
Subject Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962 -- Homes and haunts -- Kenya.
Dinesen, Isak, 1885-1962.
Authors, Danish -- Biography.
Authors, Danish -- 20th century -- Biography.
Coffee growers -- Kenya -- Biography.
Country life -- Kenya -- Fiction.
Country life -- Kenya.
Women coffee growers -- Kenya -- Biography.
SUBJECT Kenya -- Description and travel. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071992
Kenya -- Social life and customs -- 1895-1963. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85072010
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
Fiction.
LC no. 89190472
ISBN 9780143566366 (paperback)