Karen Blixen - Out of Africa
"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Hgong Hills... Up this high air you breathed easily... you woke up in the morning and thought: Here I am, where I ought to be"
From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffe plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm, and her experiences and friedships with the people around her are vividly rtecalled in thease memoirs.
Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman, and of a way of life that nas vanished for ever.
Out od Africa was made into a highly acclaimed film, starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, and won seven Oscars.