Out of Africa
New York: Random House, 1938. First American Edition. Octavo, ix, 389 pages, publisher's original color pictorial dust jacket with the original price unclipped. Publisher's original black cloth over red boards. Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen’s celebrated memoir of her years living on and managing a coffee plantation in Kenya, then British East Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills. Written with elegance and restraint, the book blends autobiography, travel writing, natural description, and portraiture, offering vivid recollections of African landscapes, wildlife, local communities, European settlers, hunting, friendship, and the eventual loss of the farm. Rather than a conventional narrative, it is a series of beautifully composed memories shaped by distance and nostalgia, giving the work its distinctive elegiac tone. Out of Africa remains one of the classic literary memoirs of the twentieth century and one of the best-known works by Karen Blixen, who wrote under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Spine slightly sunned, minor wear and discoloration, else in very good + condition. Item #376
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