Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it in Danish. The book has sometimes been published under the author's pen name, Isak Dinesen.
About Out of Africa
Set in Kenya, a wealthy Danish woman with an unfaithful husband falls for a free-spirited big-game hunter and must decide between her love and personal growth.
Achievement of Out of Africa
The film was shot on location in Africa. The filmmakers had to import trained lions from California to the set in Africa.
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Travel autobiographies.. Works about coffee.. Novels set in colonial Africa.. Works by Karen Blixen.. Books about Kenya.. Danish novels adapted into films.. Gyldendal books.. Danish novels.. Autobiographical novels.. G. P. Putnam's Sons books.. Works published under a pseudonym.
Latest information about Out of Africa updated on July 28 2021.
