Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen

In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences. The short dwells on further recollections about her days in Africa Many of the people and the events from Out of Africa appear again on these pages Out of. Shadows on the Grass serves as a coda or giant footnote to Out of Africa, filling the reader in on what happened to Dinesen’s servants and. 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 seventies. She was dead within a year of its publication.

With classic simplicity and a painters feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the.

With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass Book Overview. Isak Dinesen 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 Blixen. 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 book, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya.

Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass by Isak Dinesen