Original sentence: And as the clouds of war threatened Europe once again, the colony became as famous for the misbehavior of the wife-swapping, hard-partying Happy Valley set as it was for being a dreamy horizon of Empire.Blixen herself recalled in 1960 that when she arrived in Kenya in 1913, “the highlands were in very truth the Happy Hunting Grounds… while the pioneers lived in guileless harmony with the children of the land.But by the time that Blixen was finishing the manuscript for Out of Africa at the age of 51, the Kenya protectorate of her younger years was a thing of the past.Many came from landed English gentry; they saw themselves not as conquerors or oppressors, but as benign stewards of the land and its people.This belief in Kenya as a pre-historic Utopia left its mark on its inhabitants (and remained an idealized world of the imagination even for generations that came after)
Edited sentence: And as the clouds of war threatened Europe once again, the colony became as famous for the misbehavior of the wife-swapping, hard-partying Happy Valley set as it was for being a new horizon of Empire.But by the time that Blixen was finishing the manuscript for Out of Africa at the age of 51, the Kenya of her younger years was a thing of the past.Many came from landed English gentry; they were familiar with the management of giant estates, and with the role of the feudal lord.This atmosphere of pre-historic Utopia left its mark on its inhabitants (and remained an idealized world of the imagination even for generations that came after).”  Blixen herself recalled in 1960 that when she arrived in Kenya in 1913, “the highlands were in very truth the Happy Hunting Grounds… while the pioneers lived in guileless harmony with the children of the land