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Book Review of Out of Africa / Shadows On The Grass

Out of Africa / Shadows On The Grass
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Baroness Karen Blixen in the twentieth century at the age of twenty-seven left Denmark and sailed for East Africa to marry her Swedish cousin, Baron Bror Blixen. Together they bought a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in Kenya. For the next seventeen years she managed the plantation, even after she and her husband separated, and she recorded the expeience in two memorable books, Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass.