Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass
Author: Isak Dinesen
Publsiher: G K Hall & Company
Total Pages: 566
Release: 1986
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0816141827

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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.

Out of Africa

Out of Africa
Author: Isak Dinesen
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2001-09-27
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780141913872

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From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. Out of Africa is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever.

Anecdotes of Destiny

Anecdotes of Destiny
Author: Isak Dinesen
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2001-04-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780141961491

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These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, ‘Babette’s Feast’, which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a French cook working in a puritanical Norwegian community, who treats her employers to the decadent feast of a lifetime. There is also a real-life Prospero and his Ariel in ‘Tempests’, a mysterious pearl-fisher in ‘The Diver’ and a brief, tragic encounter in ‘The Ring’. All the stories have a mystic, fairy-tale quality, linked by themes of angels, the sea, dreams and fate. They were among the last to be written by Isak Dinesen, and show her as a master of short fiction.

Not Out of Africa

Not Out of Africa
Author: M. Lefkowitz
Publsiher: Рипол Классик
Total Pages: 135
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9785872965046

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Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa

Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa
Author: Linda Donelson
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1995
Genre: Authors, Danish
ISBN: UOM:39015037495713

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Medium Hero

Medium Hero
Author: Korby Lenker
Publsiher: Turner Publishing Company
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781681620596

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Inside this book are stories about insects, piano teachers, talking birds, dead birds, ex-convicts, suicide attempts, tarot cards, and bible verses. Some of the stories happened to Korby and some of them he just made up. It doesn't really matter which are which. Up to this point in his life, he has been a professional singer-songwriter, traveling around by himself, playing songs for small audiences, selling CDs out of a suitcase. Occasionally there have been moments where the light shined particularly bright, but mostly it's just been him and a guitar, making music in living rooms and clubs and the occasional concert hall. He has met a lot of people, most of whom leaned like him toward the fringe side of the social spectrum. He's written some of them into stories hunched over a laptop in the backseat of a touring van, or in the lobby of a Best Western, or on the cracked vinyl couch of a rock club's green room, poking a keyboard with a pair of sweaty pointer fingers. And then when he was seven he fell in love with the Ramona Quimby books, and then it was the Great Brain books, and then the Roald Dahl. Most of his best friends have been characters from stories he's read. He's always been drawn to fiction because it tells you the truth you need to know. And the truth he needs to know is that, despite considerable advances in science and industry, the world is still a big fat piece of magic.

Knitting Out of Africa

Knitting Out of Africa
Author: Marianne Isager
Publsiher: Penguin
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN: 9781620332962

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Beautiful and historic African carpets, baskets, and other textiles provide the design inspiration for these 16 sophisticated knitted cardigans, pullovers, and sweater vests. Intended for seasoned knitters, these projects use domino, double knitting, entrelac, intarsia, and stranded two-color techniques worked in fingering-weight yarns. The Shoowa Vest, the African Domino Pullover, and the Arrowheads Cropped Pullover show off fancy stitching, while other designs feature colors borrowed from the mud-dried fabrics of Mali, the block patterns of Ghana, or motifs from Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Zaire, and Zimbabwe. African animals decorate the Giraffe Vest and Zebra Cardigan, and elsewhere leaping antelope and birds in flight are used in repeating patterns. Full instructions and charted patterns for at least two adult sizes are provided for each design and high-quality photographs of the finished pieces showcase these classic additions to any wardrobe.

I Dreamed of Africa

I Dreamed of Africa
Author: Kuki Gallmann
Publsiher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2012-03-29
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780141966403

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‘Often, at the hour of day when the savannah grass is streaked with silver, and pale gold rims the silhouettes of the hills, I drive with my dogs up to the Mukutan, to watch the sun setting behind the lake, and the evening shadows settle over the valleys and plains of the Laikipia plateau.’ Kuki Gallmann’s haunting memoir of bringing up a family in Kenya in the 1970s first with her husband Paulo, and then alone, is part elegaic celebration, part tragedy, and part love letter to the magical spirit of Africa.