Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen.
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,...
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New York :
Modern Library,
1992.
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| Edition: | Modern Library edition. |
| Series: | Modern library of the world's best books.
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Table of Contents:
- I. Kamante and Lulu : The Ngong farm ; A native child ; The savage in the immigrant's house ; A gazelle
- II. A shooting accident on the farm : The shooting accident ; Riding in the reserve ; Wamai ; Wanyangerri ; A Kikuyu chief
- III. Visitors to the farm : Big dances ; A visitor from Asia ; The Somali women ; Old Knudsen ; A fugitive rests on the farm ; Visits of friends ; The noble pioneer ; Wings
- IV. From an immigrant's notebook : The wild came to the aid of the wild ; The fireflies ; The roads of life ; Esa's story ; The iguana ; Farah and the merchant of Venice ; The eĢlite of Bournemouth ; Of pride ; The oxen ; Of the two races ; A war-time safari ; The Swaheli numeral system ; "I will not let thee go except thou bless me" ; The eclipse of the moon ; Natives and verse ; Of the millennium ; Kitosch's story ; Some African birds ; Pania ; Esa's death ; Of natives and history ; The earthquake ; George ; Kejiko ; The giraffes go to Hamburg ; In the menagerie ; Fellow-travellers ; The naturalist and the monkeys ; Karomenya ; Pooran Singh ; A strange happening ; The parrot
- V. Farewell to the farm : Hard times ; The death of Kinanjui ; The grave in the hills ; Farah and I sell out ; Farewell.