Out of Africa
Dinesen, Isak / Sloan, Sam
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.After her husband left, Karen Blixen was visited frequently by her lover, the big game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories like "Scheherazade". In Af...