![]() ![]() The coffee plantation grew increasingly unsuccessful because of natural disasters, mismanagement and falling coffee prices. But eventually Karen ended up running the farm by herself as the unfaithful Bror was mostly away on safari - yet he still manages to infect her with syphilis.īlixen’s life in Kenya was no picnic a single white woman attempting to run a farm, “a little too high up for growing coffee.” Knowing nothing about coffee, the couple hired African workers. With money borrowed from Karen’s family, Bror bought a dairy farm then swapped it for a 4,500-acre coffee farm near the Ngong Hills on the outskirts of Nairobi.īlixen moved there in 1917, and this where the book begins. Karen Dinesen was born in Denmark in 1885, and came to Kenya in 1914 to marry her half-cousin Baron Bror Blixen. ![]() Out of Africa is an account of her life in Kenya. “I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” This is the opening line of Isak Dinesen’s memoir published 80 years ago. ![]()
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