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Out of Africa by: Isak Dinesen List Price: CDN$ 24.95 City Travel Guides Price: CDN$ 15.72 You Save: CDN$9.23 (37%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 967.62 EAN: 9780679600213 ISBN: 0679600213 Label: Modern Library Manufacturer: Modern Library Number Of Pages: 416 Publication Date: September 05, 1992 Publisher: Modern Library Release Date: September 05, 1992 Studio: Modern Library Sales Rank: 3514 Related Items:
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 Rating:  - Beautifully writtenI consider Out of Africa to be the best-written portrayal of Africa by a foreign writer. She did a great job in her portrayal, indicating that she was well versed not only with the land, but also with the native African peoples she met and knew as well as their way of life. The fact that Karen respected that way of life made her to have a deep understanding of their customs and lives at a time of colonialism where European settlers lived an exclusive life from the natives and only dealt with them as sources of cheap labor. I could not help recalling other titles set in the colonial era such as DISCIPLES OF FORTUNE and NOWHERE IN AFRICA. However, Karen towered above the others in her unique style of recounting her stories. Rating:  - Julie Harris does a perfect readIt's amazing how each media gives a completely different feel of this fabulous book. Dinesen's book gets 5 stars. The movie gets 5 stars for telling the stories in the book as well as its beautiful handling of the relationship between Karen and Denys. The audiotape of the book would get 5 stars as well, if it was unabridged. Julie Harris gives me goosebumps (in a good way!) Rating:  - An incomplete versionIf you want the full version of Out of Africa, this is not the audio book for you - its abridged. Rating: - Lovely but incompleteBlixen writes beautifully. It is interesting to note that English was not her native tongue but that she paints with it a beautiful portrait of Kenya between the world wars, its people and its landscapes. But unlike Conrad, another non-native English speaker who wrote of his Colonial-era experiences, Blixen has neither written a book nor really told a story. She begins very well, and beautifully. And her description of the loss of her friend and then her farm are wonderfully and poingnantly done. But the middle of the book is a series of short - often less than a page - vignettes, largely unconnected, many of which are frankly nonsensical. This, very unfortunately, is not a story of her life; she is the autobiographical ... Read More: Rating: - I could almost see the mountainsUpon hearing of this book from catcher in the Rye I decided to read it on a whim. Isak Dinesen's love for the land that she called home shown through in every remarkable story she told about her farm. The smell, feel, look, and even life of the land was so wonderfuly painted that I lost myself in it. I found myself not wanting to stop reading, but dreading the approaching end of the book. A must read for those who love to travel even if it is only in their minds. |
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