Out of Africa

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel

Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen's) celebrated memoir of the seventeen years she spent running a coffee plantation in Kenya's Ngong Hills, portraying the landscape, wildlife, her neighbors and friends, and her eventual loss of the farm.

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• Hillary Clinton: “Is there one book you wish all students would read? “Pride and Prejudice,” by Jane Austen; “Out of Africa,” by Isak Dinesen; “Schindler’s List,” by Thomas Keneally.”