In many ways a love letter written to the people and places that so marked the author, this book tells the story of the love between a Danish woman and a vagabond in 1920s Kenya. The book has been made into a film.

Out of Africa

Biographies & Memoirs

Karen Blixen

isak-dinesen

Travelers & Explorers

Penguin??Books

Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.

Shadows on the Grass

Literature & Fiction

Penguin Classic

Contemporary

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD, UK

Romantics, adventurers, sensualists, melancholics and dreamers inhabit the bizarre and exotic world conjured up in these seven intricately interwoven tales, whose settings range from Tuscany and Elsinore, to a dhow on its way from Lamu to Zanzibar. Proclaimed a masterpiece on its publication in 1934, this collection is shot through with themes of love and desire - from the maiden lady who now believes herself to have been the grand courtesan of her time, to the Count whose wife is so jealous that she cannot bear him to admire her jewels, and Lincoln Forsner, an Englishman whose search for a woman he met in a brothel leads him into many strange adventures.

Seven Gothic Tales : The Roads Round Pisa; The Old Chevalier; The Monkey; The Deluge at Norderney; The Supper at Elsinore; The Dreamers; The Poet

Genre Fiction

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee-farm. Drawn to the exquisite beauty of Africa, she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed. A poignant farewell to her beloved farm, "Out of Africa" describes her friendships with the local people, her dedication for the landscape and wildlife, and great love for the adventurer Denys Finch-Hatton.

Out of Africa: Popular Penguins

Penquin Books

Ngong Hills

Penguin

Carnival: Entertainments and Posthumous Tales

Short Stories & Anthologies

William Heinemann, Ltd.

Selections from a variety of nonfiction works discuss the history, people, culture, wildlife, landscape, and agriculture of Kenya

Nine Faces of Kenya: Portrait of a Nation

History

EVELYN WAUGH

Shiva Naipaul

Beryl Markham

Theodore, Roosevelt

Winston, Churchill

Richard, Leakey

Ernest, Hemingway

Africa

Viking/Penquin

In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful. The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today. This edition is set from the first American edition of 1937 and commemorates the seventy-fifth anniversary of Random House.

Out of Africa (Traveller's)

Century

OUT OF AFRICA DVD (FOLIO CINEMA DVD)

Sydney Pollack

Gallimard Education

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