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Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass
by Isak Dinesen
- New
- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 0679724753
- ISBN 13
- 9780679724759
- Seller
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St. Louis, Missouri, United States
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About This Item
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. In this book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives: of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors--lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes--and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
The Random House colophon made its debut in February 1927 on the cover of a little pamphlet called "Announcement Number One." Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, the company's founders, had acquired the Modern Library from publishers Boni and Liveright two years earlier. One day, their friend the illustrator Rockwell Kent stopped by their office. Cerf later recalled, "Rockwell was sitting at my desk facing Donald, and we were talking about doing a few books on the side, when suddenly I got an inspiration and said, 'I've got the name for our publishing house. We just said we were go-ing to publish a few books on the side at random. Let's call it Random House.' Donald liked the idea, and Rockwell Kent said, 'That's a great name. I'll draw your trademark.' So, sitting at my desk, he took a piece of paper and in five minutes drew Random House, which has been our colophon ever since." Throughout the years, the mission of Random House has remained consistent: to publish books of the highest quality, at random. We are proud to continue this tradition today.
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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- Bookseller
- Eden Theological Seminary Bookstore
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 355182
- Title
- Out of Africa: and Shadows on the Grass
- Author
- Isak Dinesen
- Format/Binding
- Trade paperback, glued binding
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0679724753
- ISBN 13
- 9780679724759
- Publisher
- Vintage International
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Pages
- 480
- Size
- 5.2 X 8.0 X 1.0 inches | 1.05 po
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction;
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