Out of Africa
by Dinesen, Isak
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good+ with no dust jacket
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Blagoevgrad Region, Bulgaria
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About This Item
London: Guild Publishing. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1986. Reprint; First Printing. Hardcover. Book Club Edition . Missing DJ if issued, light foxing to edges of reading block. ; Faux leather boards with gilt lettering to spine and decorations to front cover and spine, decorated endpapers. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside. ; 272 pages; Facsimile of the 1938 first edition. A memoire of Baroness Blixen's life in Kenya, where she ran a coffee plantation at Ngong, initially with her husband until their divorce in 1921, and then on her own until the collapse of the coffee market in 1931. .
Synopsis
Out of Africa is a memoir by Isak Dinesen, a nom de plume used by the Danish author Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then 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 is also a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire.
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- Seller
- Books in Bulgaria
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 29096
- Title
- Out of Africa
- Author
- Dinesen, Isak
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+ with no dust jacket
- Edition
- Reprint; First Printing
- Publisher
- Guild Publishing
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Keywords
- Book Club Edition
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