![]() ![]() Insanely unwoke and colonialist but beautiful In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, "Echoes from the Hills", was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960, when the author was in her 70s. With warmth and humanity, these four stories illuminate her love for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and the beauty and wildness of the landscape. ![]() Isak Dineson takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixon. ![]() ![]() She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her of primitive festivals of big game that were her near neighbors - lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful. In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. ![]()
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