Out of Africa

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• Out Of Africa by Karen Blixen

  It's more than a quarter of a century since I first saw the film Out of Africa and it's one of the few that have stayed with me over the intervening years. It wasn't just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of t ... (read full critics)

  thebookbag published on Thu, 12 May 2011

• The Old Feudalist

  Some of my best friends have been moved to tears by the 1985 motion picture which takes its title from the Baroness Blixen’s 1937 memoir, Out of Africa. These suckers will be taken aback if they ever come to read the old book on which they wrongly su ... (read full critics)

  lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

1 Review

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  In many ways a love letter written to the people and places that so marked the author, this book tells the story of the love between a Danish woman and a vagabond in 1920s Kenya. The book has been made into a film.

  Saw the film and read the book back in the 1980's and enjoyed both.

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• English Books
• Audio Cassette
• ISBN-10: 0745127193
• ISBN-13: 9780745127194
• Publisher: Chivers Audio Books
• Pub date: Sep 01, 1995
• Dimensions: 1419 mm x 1097 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Libri Italiani

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