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Out of Africa

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Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the eighteen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Original Language
Danish 1
Original Language
English 1
Composed, From (Year)
1937 1
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Karen Blixen, Authors
Source Out of Africa (Wikipedia)

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  • Lead section
    Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the eighteen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa.
  • Original language statement
    Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen.
  • Lead paragraph
    Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the eighteen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there.
  • Authored By: Karen Blixen, Lead section, authorship
    Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen.
  • In Genre: Nonfiction Prose, Infobox, Genre field
    Memoir
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