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(~700 BC),
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ZIN Product Number: 10181388
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 1st ed., 462 pages
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0679724753
Release Date: Jan 9, 1984
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 1 review.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
At the age of twenty-seven, Isak Dinesen (nee Karen Blixen) left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in Kenya. From 1914 to 1931 she managed the plantation, even after she and her husband separated. Her account of those years is transformed by the magic of her prose and her supreme gift as a storyteller into a vibrant re-creation of Africa, filled with her affection for and understanding of the land and its people.
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A reissue of the book that inspired the critically acclaimed movie version. Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass.
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An African Safari
-- Repunzel, May 4, 2000
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"True to her credo the storyteller's story, her tales are...grips out of, rather than into, an extraordinary mind." —Eudora Welty
| |  | | | | 1. | Kamante and Lulu | | | The Ngong Farm | 3 | | A Native Child | 21 | | The Savage in the Immigrant's House | 40 | | A Gazelle | 61 | | 2. | A Shooting Accident on the Farm | | | The Shooting Accident | 81 | | Riding in the Reserve | 94 | | Wamai | 105 | | Wanyangerri | 120 | | A Kikuyu Chief | 136 | | 3. | Visitors to the Farm | | | Big Dances | 153 | | A Visitor from Asia | 165 | | The Somali Women | 170 | | Old Knudsen | 181 | | A Fugitive Rests on the Farm | 189 | | Visits of Friends | 198 | | The Noble Pioneer | 205 | | Wings | 217 | | 4. | From an Immigrant's Notebook | | | The Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild | 239 | | The Fireflies | 240 | | The Roads of Life | 241 | | Esa's Story | 243 | | The lguana | 246 | | Farah and the Merchant of Venice | 248 | | The Elite of Bournemouth | 250 | | Of Pride | 250 | | The Oxen | 251 | | Of the Two Races | 254 | | A War-Time Safari | 255 | | The Swaheli Numeral System | 262 | | "I Will Not Let Thee Go Except Thou Bless Me" | 263 | | The Eclipse of the Moon | 265 | | Natives and Verse | 265 | | Of the Millennium | 266 | | Kitosch's Story | 267 | | Some African Birds | 272 | | Pania | 275 | | Esa's Death | 277 | | Of Natives and History | 280 | | The Earthquake | 283 | | George | 284 | | Kejiko | 285 | | The Giraffes Go to Hamburg | 286 | | In the Menagerie | 289 | | Fellow-Travellers | 292 | | The Naturalist and the Monkeys | 293 | | Karomenya | 295 | | Pooran Singh | 298 | | A Strange Happening | 300 | | The Parrot | 303 | | 5. | Farewell to the Farm | | | Hard Times | 307 | | The Death of Kinanjui | 320 | | The Grave in the Hills | 329 | | Farah and I Sell Out | 347 | | Farewell | 364 | | Shadows on the Grass | 373 |
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