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Out of Africa

Isak Dinesen

Form
Form Memoir
Year
Year 1937
Originally in
Originally in Danish
Pages
Pages 440

A Danish woman runs a coffee farm in the Kenyan highlands for nearly two decades, falls for a free-roaming big-game hunter who is killed flying his own plane, and finally loses the farm itself and has to leave the Africa she loves for good.

I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen

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