Out Of Africa

In 1921, the year that Baroness Karen Blixen found herself stranded by her divorce on a Kenyan mountain farm, most women in her circumstances would have fled back to civilization.But instead of returning to her native Denmark, the 35-year-old Blixen stayed on and ran the farm.In 1931 coffee prices collapsed and she was forced to leave. She returned to Denmark where she poured her memories into a passionate love letter about the life that would hold her in thrall till the end of her days. OUT OF AFRICA, published in 1937 under the pseudonym of Isak Dinesen, became a classic.