OUT OF AFRICA. By Karen Blixen.

(1937) reprint of 1989 edition. Small 8vo (130 x 198mm). Pp330,vi[ads]. Cover picture showing Merryl Streep and Robert Redford, from publicity poster for the 1985 film.

Baroness Blixen's well-known account of her life in Kenya in the early years of the twentieth century. Chapters include: Part I, Kamante and Lulu: The Ngong farm; A native child; The savage in the immigrant's house; A gazelle. Part II, A Shooting Incident on The Farm: The shooting accident; Riding in the reserve; Wamai; Wanyangerri; A Kikuyu chief. Part III, Visitors to The Farm: Big dances; A visitor from Asia; The Somali women; Old Knudsen; A fugitive rests on the farm; Visits of friends; The noble pioneer; Wings; The fireflies; The roads of life; The wild came to the aid of the wild; Esa's story; The iguana; Farah and the Merchant of Venice; The elite of Bournemouth; Of Pride; The oxen; Of the two races; A war-time safari; The Swahili numeral system; 'I will not let Thee go except Thou bless me'; The eclipse of the moon; Natives and verse; Of the Milennium; Kitosch's story; Some African birds; Pania; Esa's death; Of natives and history; The earthquake; George; Kejiko; The giraffes go to Hamburg; In the menagerie; Fellow-travellers; The naturalist and the monkeys; Karomenya; Pooran Singh; A strange happening; The parrot; Hard times; Death of Kinanjui; The grave in the hills; Farah and I sell out; Farewell.