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Irene
Sep 19, 2015 rated it liked it
Dinesen owned a coffee plantation in Kenya during the early years of the 20th century. This is less the narrative of those years than a collection of anecdotes from that period that conveyed the feel of the place and local culture, the sense of her experience.
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