Out of Africa

Out of Africa
First Edition (UK)
AuthorKaren Blixen
LanguageEnglish, Danish, Swahili
GenreMemoir
PublisherPutnam (UK); Gyldendal (Denmark)
Publication date
1937
Publication placeUnited Kingdom, Denmark
Media typePrint ()
Pages416
ISBN0-679-60021-3 (hardcover edition)
OCLC25747758
967.62 20
LC ClassDT433.54 .D56 1992

Out of Africa is a memoir by the Danish author Karen Blixen. The book, first published in 1937, recounts events of the seventeen years when Blixen made her home in Kenya, then called British East Africa. The book is a lyrical meditation on Blixen's life on her coffee plantation, as well as a tribute to some of the people who touched her life there. It provides a vivid snapshot of African colonial life in the last decades of the British Empire. Blixen wrote the book in English and then rewrote it in Danish. The book has sometimes been published under the author's pen name, Isak Dinesen.