num_pages: 330
description: Karen Blixen went to Kenya in 1914 to run a coffee farm; its failure in 1931 caused her to return to Denmark where she wrote this classic account of her experiences. "Out of Africa" is a celebration of her life there; her friendship with the various people of the area and her sympathetic response to the landscape and animals are drawn with warmth and unusual clarity. Although the book is pervaded by her sense of loss, Karen Blixen looks back with an unsentimental intelligence to portray a way of life that is now gone forever.
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: 42723
places: Africa, Kenya
publisher: Penguin