So escape the lockdown and transport yourself to Africa and read 2 very different but deeply interwoven books. The lyrical and luminous memoir of Kenya that launched a million tourist trails I had a farm. She had an affair with the Prince of Wales which Buckingham Palace were still paying her to keep quiet about when she died in her 80s! Buy Out of Africa by Karen Blixen for 26.00 at Mighty Ape NZ. She was also the first female race horse trainer licensed in Kenya and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic from East to West.

Quantity: 1 Add to Basket Condition: Good. Seller Rating: Contact seller Book Used - Softcover Condition: Good US 7.82 Convert currency Free shipping Within U.S.A. She was also a lover of Dennis Finch-Hatton (Robert Redford) and was having an affair with him at the time of his tragic death in a plane crash. /rebates/2fbook-search2ftitle2fout-of-africa2fauthor2fkaren-blixen2ffirst-edition2f&. Out of Africa Dinesen, Isak, Blixen, Karen Published by Penguin Books, Limited, 1979 ISBN 10: 0140009132 ISBN 13: 9780140009132 Seller: Better World Books: West, Reno, U.S.A. What I thought was fiction was actually the novelised biography of one of the most extraordinary women I have ever come across.īeryl Markham was a friend of Karen Blixen, at least for a while. Glancing at the front cover I thought “Oh that looks like a romance set in Kenya, great holiday book.” I started to read, and after a while some of the characters started to sound familiar. Out of Africa, a moving farewell to her beloved Kenya, details her close relationships with the locals, her love of the environment and its wildlife, and her deep fondness for intrepid traveller Denys Finch-Hatton. It was called Circling the Sun by Paula McLain. After being compelled to return to Denmark, Karen Blixen penned her enduring account of her experiences in 1937.

Back in our guest house, I was unpacking when I found that someone had left a paperback in the top drawer of the bedside table. I sat outside her back door and stared out at the view of the Ngong Hills that she loved so much. In 2017 I was lucky enough to visit Kenya and was overjoyed to find that her house on the outskirts of Nairobi is still there and open as a museum.

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