Karen Blixen · 1937 · exile
Karen Blixen's 1937 memoir. Leaving Denmark, she sails to British East Africa to run a coffee farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills near Nairobi. Across seventeen years she loves the land, the Kikuyu who work it, and the hunter Denys Finch Hatton, flying over the Rift Valley - until the farm fails and Denys's death send her home, carrying Africa only in memory.
- 1Denmark
Karen Blixen leaves Copenhagen to marry and sail south to British East Africa, exchanging a comfortable European life for a coffee farm on the equator.
- 2Mombasa
The Indian Ocean port where she lands in Kenya and takes the railway up-country toward the highlands and the farm that will become her life.
- 3Ngong Hills
The coffee farm near Nairobi at the foot of the Ngong Hills, where Blixen spends seventeen years among the Kikuyu, loves Denys Finch Hatton, and finally watches it all slip away.