Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass Audiobook
Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass Audiobook
- Susan Lyons
- Random House (Audio)
- 2015-07-21
- 16 h 36 min
Summary:
Out of Africa:
In this audiobook, the writer of Seven Gothic Stories provides true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with traditional simplicity from the ways of the united states as well as the natives: of the wonder from the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom: of her guests, in the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the previous charcoal burner, who stopped at her: of primitive festivals: of big game that were her near neighbors–lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes–and of Lulu, the tiny about Out of Africa & Shadows on the Lawn gazelle who found live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
Shadows in the Grass:
Isak Dinesen occupies the absorbing tale of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With heat and humanity these four stories illuminate her like both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the wonder and wildness from the surroundings. The initial three were created in the 1950s as well as the last, ‘Echoes in the Hillsides’, was created especially for this quantity in the summer of 1960 when the writer is at her seventies. In every they offer a moving final section to her African reminiscences.