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|title=Out Of Africa
|author=Karen Blixen
|reviewer=Sue Magee
|genre=Autobiography
|summary=First published in 1937 but still fresh and relevant, this is the story of Karen's Blixen's life as a coffee farmer in Kenya in the first part quarter of the twentieth century. Highly recommended.
|rating=5
|buy=Yes
|borrow=Yes
|pages=336
|publisher=Penguin Essentials
|isbn=978-0241951439
|website=http://www.karenblixen.com/
|videocover=0241951437|amazonukaznuk=<amazonuk>ISBN</amazonuk>0241951437|amazonusaznus=<amazonus>ISBN</amazonus>0241951437
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It's more than a quarter of a century since I first saw the film ''Out of Africa'' and it's one of the few that have stayed with me over the intervening years. It wasn't just the story, but the personality of Karen Blixen and the wonderful landscape of the Ngong Hills, south of Nairobi, in Kenya's Rift Valley. I remember looking for this book at the time, but being unable to find it, so the opportunity to read it now was too good to miss.
For something of Kenya at a slightly later period we can recommend [[The Temptress: The Scandalous Life of Alice, Countess de Janze by Paul Spicer]].
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