01634cam a2200277 4500 264279116 TxAuBib 20110217120000.0 110217s1992||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780679600213 0679600213 (OCoLC)438453992 TxAuBib Dinesen, Isak. Out of Africa. New York, NY : Random House, 1992. 399 p. Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century.". 20110217. Dinesen, Isak 1885-1962 Homes and haunts Kenya. Kenya Social life and customs1895-1963. Kenya Description and travel. Country life Kenya. Authors, Danish 20th century Biography. TXHAM