AFRICAN NIGHTS Gallmann 95 + OUT OF AFRICA K Blixen 85

PAIR OF AUTOBIOGRAPHIES SET IN AFRICA

Penguin paperback editions

details as outlined below:

 

1.  AFRICAN NIGHTS

by Kuki Gallmann (author of I dreamed of Africa)

First published by Viking, 1994

This edition published by Penguin Books, 1995

Paperback xviii + 142 pages

ISBN 0-14-023846-8

Cover notes:

"Kuki Gallmann, whose haunting bestseller I Dreamed of Africa so perfectly captured the beauty and drama of the Kenyan Highlands, and who so generously bared her heart to its readers, here evokes through a tapestry of interwoven true episodes the magic that touches all African life.

The adventure of a moonlit picnic on a vanishing island; her son's entrancement with chameleons and the mystical visit of a king cobra to his grave; the mysterious compassion of an elephant herd - in each event, Kuki Gallmann conveys her delight and wonder at the whole fabric of creation.

She recounts touching moments with people passing through, and enduring friendships constantly renewed; strange and wonderful encounters with animals; the magnificence of the coast and mountains, forest and savannah, and reveals, in addition to the harmony between man and his environment, the intrinsic beauty of Africa's soul."

 

2.  OUT OF AFRICA (as filmed by Sydney Pollack, with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford)

and SHADOWS ON THE GRASS [single volume edition]

by Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen)

Out of Africa first published 1937

Shadows on the Grass first published 1960

This collected edition published by Penguin Books, 1985

Paperback, 13 x 20 cm (1.8 cm), 351 pages

ISBN 0-14-008533-5

The spine is straight and hardly creased at all but there is some minor minor abrasion around the bottom of the spine, plus fading of the colour down the spine. The rest of the outside of the book shows moderately heavy all round handling wear and surface marks.

The inside of the book is unmarked. The paper shows mild natural ageing and some curling but the contents remain in fair, clean reading condition.

Cover notes

"Karen Blixen's extraordinary love affair with Africa began when she and her husband went to Kenya to plant coffee in 1913. The marriage and the plantation failed, but Baroness Blixen's passion for Africa remained.

Out of Africa and Shadows on the Grass presented for the first time in one volume, were written when she returned to her native Denmark and are full of her longing to return to the country and the people she came to love and admire. Her writing combines intelligence, compassion and an acute understanding of an alien culture."

 

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