|
 |
All orders
shipped by
airmail!
Click here for our
Shipping Policies!
| |
|
ZIN Product Number: 10181101
| eBay (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 14 | | Price Range: | | $0.02 - 0.03 | | | | Craigslist (last 12 months) | | Classifieds: | | 6 | | Price Range: | | $0.01 - 0.01 | | | | Amazon Used (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 34 | | Price Range: | | $0.03 - 0.02 | | | | ZooScape (last 12 months) | | Auctions: | | 0 | | Price Range: | | N/A | | | | | | Google listings (non-affiliate) | | 48 | | MSN listings (non-affiliate) | | 12 | | Yahoo listings (non-affiliate) | | 21 | | |
| | 
| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 1st ed., 399 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 0679600213
Release Date: Jan 9, 1984
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 4 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."
| |  | | |
 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 4 Average Rating:
Sloooooow read
-- A reviewer, August 12, 2002
Also Recommended: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
Ugh
-- Alicia, a junior in high school from Ohio, June 27, 2000
Also Recommended: Watership Down, Dante's Inferno, The Aeneid,Catch-22
Deeply Committed to Living
-- Donald Mitchell, a management consultant from Boston, October 11, 2001
-- Gretchen, Honors Georaphy Student, April 24, 2000
Also Recommended: Hunter S Thompson 'The Curse of Lono,' Michael Crichton 'Jurassic Park,' Jeffery Deaver 'The Bone Collector.'
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The celebrated account of her years running a plantation in Kenya
| |  | | | The Word On The Street
I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills...It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet, like the strong and refined essence of a continent... In the highlands you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be. —Isak Dinesen
| |  | | | Find similiar books in these subject areas:
All Topics > Literature & Fiction > General > Classics
All Topics > Biographies & Memoirs > General
| | | | People like you also bought:
Letters from Africa, 1914-1931, by Isak Dinesen
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller, by Judith Thurman
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood, by Elspeth Huxley
I Dreamed of Africa, by Kuki Gallmann
Last Time They Met, by Anita Shreve
West with the Night, by Beryl Markham
Life Directions: Experiencing the Gift of God's Guidance, by Jane A. Kise
Fall on Your Knees (Oprah Edition), by Ann-Marie MacDonald
| | | | | | Keywords
Biography, 20th century, Country life, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Kenya, Authors, Danish, 1895-1963, Kenya, Social life and customs, 1895-1963, Country life, Description and travel, Literature - Classics / Criticism, Fiction, Classics, Biography, 20th century, Country life, Social life and customs, Description and travel, Kenya, Authors, Danish, 1895-1963
| |
| |
| | | |
Make $1 per sale -
Link to ZooScape.com! | |
