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Title: Out of Africa by ISAK DINESEN ISBN: 0-679-60021-3 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 05 September, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.53 (32 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Love Poem to East Africa
Comment: A quintessential, lyrical love poem to East Africa. Karen Blixen's years of joy, discovery and struggle unfold beautifully in "Out of Africa"...which she wrote years later (under the pseudonym Isak Denesen) after returning to her native Denmark. What is absent from the book which one finds in the Oscar-winning film are the relationship struggles with her long-time companion Dennys Finch Hatton. Here she keeps her focus on the many friends, employees and characters she met along the way in the operation of her coffee plantation during the early 1900s...and avoids writing romantically about Finch Hatton. Her love affair with Africa though is beautifully and eloquently expressed throughout "Out Of Africa." Those readers who may be interested in reading more about her and Finch Hatton might be interested in reading her "Letters From Africa."
"Out Of Africa" is essential reading for those contemplating a journey to Kenya or Tanzania. It reads like a very colorful and sometimes haunting work of fiction, and is all the more fascinating because this remarkable woman and writer actually experienced it all.
Rating: 5
Summary: A beautifully written love affair of Africa
Comment: Isak Dinesen, nee Karen Blixen, lived in East Africa for almost twenty years making a living as the proprietor of a coffee plantation. Out of Africa is a memoir of her experiences there. But the book is so much more.
The stories are interesting to be sure. They relate to the plantation or the people and events that one way or another impacted her life there. But it is Blixen's writing that I found so sublime. I have never read anything like it. The way Blixen turns a phrase is both lyrical and enchanting all at once - you become literally swept up in the words and imagery. It is obvilious that Blixen loved Africa - something about the continent got under her skin. In a similar fashion her words have gotten under mine. I have read Out of Africa several times; each time I marvel at the beautiful language she uses. Read this book and I am sure you will feel the same way.
Rating: 3
Summary: An incomplete version
Comment: If you want the full version of Out of Africa, this is not the audio book for you - its abridged.
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Title: Letters from Africa 1914-1931 by Isak Dinesen, Frans Lasson, Anne Born ISBN: 0226153118 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: February, 1984 List Price(USD): $17.13 |
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Title:Out of Africa ASIN: 0783240171 Publisher: Universal Studios Pub. Date: 04 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.98 Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $12.28 |
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Title: Isak Dinesen : The Life of a Storyteller by Judith Thurman ISBN: 0312135254 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 October, 1995 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: West with the Night by Beryl Markham ISBN: 0865471185 Publisher: North Point Press Pub. Date: 01 January, 1982 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen ISBN: 0679724753 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 23 October, 1989 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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