![]() ![]() In Out of Africa she spares the reader the distressing details. ![]() (Coffee also helps!) If you are already familiar with Blixen's life there isn't much that will startle you, but for me the surprise was realising how hard she really struggled to keep her farm going. I believe reading someone's letter collection requires a keen interest in the person in question and patience, as things will be repeated. The Letters were edited by Frans Lasson for the Rungstedlund Foundation. And in a way, during the times of tribulation one comes to love this intractable country still more I have a feeling that wherever I may be in the future, I will be wondering whether there is rain at Ngong. ![]() It is so beautiful here, a paradise on earth, when there is enough rain. She arrived there at the beginning of 1914 (the first sentence in her memoir Out of Africa is: 'I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills') and this she wrote to her mother in 1919: Recently I finished reading Letters from Africa 1914-1931, a collection of the letters which author Karen Blixen (pseudonym Isak Dinesen) wrote home to her family in Denmark during her years in Kenya. ![]()
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