Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass

by DINESEN, ISAK

• ISBN13: 9780679724759
• ISBN10: 0679724753
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1989-10-23
• Publisher: Vintage

Summary

With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.

Author Biography

Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of Karen Blixen, born in Denmark in 1885. After her marriage in 1914 to Baren Bror Blixen, she and her husband lived in British East Africa, where they owned a coffee plantation. She divorced from her husband in 1921 but continued to manage the plantation for another ten years, until the collapse of the coffee market forced her to sell the property and return to Denmark in 1931. There she began to write in English under the nom de plume Isak Dinesen. Her first book, and literary success, was Seven Gothic Tales. It was followed by Out of Africa, The Angelic Avengers (written under the pseudonym Pierre Andrézel), Winter's Tales, Last Tales, Anecdotes of Destiny, Shadows on the Grass, and Ehrengard. She died in 1962.

Table of Contents

Out of Africa
Kamante and Lulu
The Ngong Farm	3	(18)
A Native Child	21	(19)
The Savage in the Immigrant's House	40	(21)
A Gazelle	61	(20)
A Shooting Accident on the Farm
The Shooting Accident	81	(13)
Riding in the Reserve	94	(11)
Wamai	105	(15)
Wanyangerri	120	(16)
A Kikuyu Chief	136	(17)
Visitors to the Farm
Big Dances	153	(12)
A Visitor from Asia	165	(5)
The Somali Women	170	(11)
Old Knudsen	181	(8)
A Fugitive Rests on the Farm	189	(9)
Visits of Friends	198	(7)
The Noble Pioneer	205	(12)
Wings	217	(22)
From an Immigrant's Notebook
The Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild	239	(1)
The Fireflies	240	(1)
The Roads of Life	241	(2)
Esa's Story	243	(3)
The Iguana	246	(2)
Farah and the Merchant of Venice	248	(2)
The Elite of Bournemouth	250	(1)
Of Pride	250	(1)
The Oxen	251	(3)
Of the Two Races	254	(1)
A War-Time Safari	255	(7)
The Swaheli Numeral System	262	(1)
``I Will Not Let Thee Go Except Thou Bless Me''	263	(2)
The Eclipse of the Moon	265	(1)
Natives and Verse	265	(1)
Of the Millennium	266	(1)
Kitosch's Story	267	(5)
Some African Birds	272	(3)
Pania	275	(2)
Esa's Death	277	(3)
Of Natives and History	280	(3)
The Earthquake	283	(1)
George	284	(1)
Kejiko	285	(1)
The Giraffes Go to Hamburg	286	(3)
In the Menagerie	289	(3)
Fellow-Travellers	292	(1)
The Naturalist and the Monkeys	293	(2)
Karomenya	295	(3)
Pooran Singh	298	(2)
A Strange Happening	300	(3)
The Parrot	303	(4)
Farewell to the Farm
Hard Times	307	(13)
The Death of Kinanjui	320	(9)
The Grave in the Hills	329	(18)
Farah and I Sell Out	347	(17)
Farewell	364	(9)
Shadows on the Grass	373