This is an auction for THE ILLUSTRATED OUT OF AFRICA by Karen Blixen.

Amazon.com reviews:

"From the moment Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya in 1914 to manage a coffee plantation, her heart belonged to Africa. Drawn to the intense colours and ravishing landscapes, Karen Blixen spent her happiest years on the farm and her experiences and friendships with the people around her are vividly recalled in these memoirs. OUT OF AFRICA is the story of a remarkable and unconventional woman and of a way of life that has vanished for ever."

"FIVE STARS!!! As an avid reader, OUT OF AFRICA still remains one of my favourite books. I have returned to it many times to absorb myself in the world of Africa at the turn of the 20th century. Karen Blixen lived in Africa from 1914 to 1931 where she set up a coffee plantation. Through the book she meanders through her life in no chronological order telling wonderful stories about the people she encountered while there. I found this book both stirring and remarkable and one I will return again and again. "If I know a song of Africa," she writes, "of the Giraffe, and the African new moon lying on her back, of the ploughs in the fields, and the sweaty faces of the coffee-pickers, does Africa know a song of me?"

More very favourable reviews on Amazon.com.

Large format hardback 1985.

288 pages.

Photographs and illustrations throughout.

Near new condition, despite its age.

The cost of shipping is $6.95.

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

Payment within seven days, please.