Out of Africa

This captivating memoir takes readers on a journey through Isak Dinesen's time spent in Africa from 1914 to 1931. Managing a coffee plantation in Kenya after separating from her husband, Dinesen becomes enraptured by the African landscape and her lover - big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton. Through her storytelling abilities, she regales the natives with tales like Scheherazade and reflects on her adventures in what John Updike calls, "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."