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Out of Africa
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April 1, 2012
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May 1, 2012
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New School Classics- 1915-2005
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Contemporary Classic Group Read, April 2012

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Laura
Episode 1 : The Cuckoo
Soon after Karen Blixen relocates to East Africa, she finds herself alone in a foreign land with the enormous responsibility of trying to operate a successful coffee plantation. In order to accomplish this, she must get to know the land and the East Africans who work for and with her. In the process, she learns more about herself.

In 1913, Karen travels to Kenya to marry her second cousin and start a farm in Africa.

Karen Blixen ..... Emma Fielding
Denys Finch-Hatton ..... Tom
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Kelly_Hunsaker_reads ...
The book is not a love letter to Robert Redford (ummm, I mean Denys), but it is a love letter to Africa. I wanted to love it as I remember loving the movie so much. But the book reads a little too much like a diary rather than a memoir. It is slightly bumpy and disjointed.
Nadine in NY Jones
No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the altitude of stillness, and my evade lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it. The art of moving gently, without suddenness, is the first o be studied by the hunter, and more so by the hunter with the camera. Hunters cannot have their own way, they must fall in love with the wind, and the colours and smells of the landscape, and they must make the tempo of the landscape their own. Som
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