num_pages: 330
description: From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. 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. "Out of Africa" is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.
language: English
title: Out of Africa
titlecomplete: Out of Africa
characters: Karen Blixen, Farah (Out of Africa), Kamante, Denys Finch-Hatton
genres: Biography, Africa, Travel, Classics, Autobiography, Nonfiction, History, Memoir, Kenya, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 42722
places: Africa, Kenya
publisher: Penguin Books