Out of Africa

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Out of Africa by Karen Blixen is perhaps more famous for having been made into a multi Oscar winning film starring Meryl Streep and Robert Redford, but before the glamour of Hollywood came the real story of a remarkable and unconventional woman who documented a way of life that has now vanished forever.

When Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 and settled on the Ngong Hills she immediately felt she belonged. Having set out to manage a coffee plantation, she lost her heart to the intense colours of the landscape she found herself in. Out of Africa documents Blixen’s happiest years on the farm, her experiences and the friendships that developed with the people around her.