Out Of Africa And Shadows On The Grass

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 1443432954
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out Of Africa written by Isak Dinesen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Out of Africa, author Isak Dinesen takes a wistful and nostalgic look back on her years living in Africa on a Kenyan coffee plantation. Recalling the lives of friends and neighbours—both African and European—Dinesen provides a first-hand perspective of colonial Africa. Through her obvious love of both the landscape and her time in Africa, Dinesen’s meditative writing style deeply reflects the themes of loss as her plantation fails and she returns to Europe. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : G K Hall & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780816141821
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass written by Isak Dinesen and published by G K Hall & Company. This book was released on 1986 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Africa, it is the story of Dinesen's years in Africa--together with Shadows on the Grass. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141961465
Total Pages : 89 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Grass written by Isak Dinesen and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1990-10-25 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307794091
Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Africa written by Isak Dinesen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.

Author : Sara Wheeler
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1588365999
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Too Close to the Sun written by Sara Wheeler and published by Random House. This book was released on 2007-04-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer. Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. Tall and graceful, with the soul of a poet and an athlete’s relaxed masculinity, he became a hero without trying at Eton and Oxford. In 1910, searching for novelty and danger, Finch Hatton arrived in British East Africa and fell in love–with a continent, with a landscape, with a way of life that was about to change forever. Wheeler brilliantly conjures the mystical beauty of Kenya at a time when teeming herds of wild animals roamed unmolested across pristine savannah. No one was more deeply attuned to this beauty than Finch Hatton–and no one more bitterly mourned its passing when the outbreak of World War I engulfed the region in a protracted, bloody guerrilla conflict. Finch Hatton was serving as a captain in the Allied forces when he met Karen Blixen in Nairobi and embarked on one of the great love affairs of the twentieth century. With delicacy and grace, Wheeler teases out truth from fiction in the liaison that Blixen herself immortalized in Out of Africa. Intellectual equals, bound by their love for the continent and their inimitable sense of style, Finch Hatton and Blixen were genuine pioneers in a land that was quickly being transformed by violence, greed, and bigotry. Ever restless, Finch Hatton wandered into a career as a big-game hunter and became an expert bush pilot; his passion that led to his affair with the notoriously unconventional aviatrix Beryl Markham. But Markham was no more able to hold him than Blixen had been. Mesmerized all his life by the allure of freedom and danger, Finch Hatton was, writes Wheeler, “the open road made flesh.” In painting a portrait of an irresistible man, Sara Wheeler has beautifully captured the heady glamour of the vanished paradise of colonial East Africa. In Too Close to the Sun she has crafted a book that is as ravishing as its subject.

Author : Isak Dinesen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780226153117
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters from Africa, 1914-1931 written by Isak Dinesen and published by . This book was released on 1984-04 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written to her family, these letters recount the failure of Dinesen's marriage, the financial collapse of her husband's coffee plantation, and her experiences in Kenya

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shadows on the Grass written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Judith Thurman
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250857104
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Isak Dinesen written by Judith Thurman and published by Picador. This book was released on 2022-12-06 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith Thurman’s brilliant, National Book Award–winning biography of Isak Dinesen—now with a new foreword by the author A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Dinesen’s magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established her as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. With exceptional grace, Judith Thurman’s classic work explores Dinesen’s life. Until the appearance of this book, the life and art of Isak Dinesen have been—as Dinesen herself wrote of two lovers in a tale—“a pair of locked caskets, each containing the key to the other.” Judith Thurman has provided the master key to them both.

Author : Peter Hathaway Capstick
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466803924
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Death in the Long Grass written by Peter Hathaway Capstick and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 1978-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it—leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer. Based on Capstick’s own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grassportrays the great killers of the African bush—not only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the world—underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle.

Author : Errol Trzebinski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780586066966
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silence Will Speak written by Errol Trzebinski and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: