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150 Best Travel Books to Read Before You Die Book #62 Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (1885-1962) Danish author Isak Dinesen real name was Karen Von Blixen-Finecke. She was twenty seven when she marred her Swedish cousin and sailed for East Africa. In Kenya they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation and she managed it for the next seventeen years. Eventually she separated from her husband and life was far from easy. She loved the land and its people and that kept her for seventeen years in Africa. She wrote two memorable books of her experience in Africa; Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass. Sydney Pollack presented Isak Dinesens extraordinary life and work in Out of Africa movie starring Robert Redford and Meryl Streep.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:40:57 +0000

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