5/20/2023 0 Comments Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen![]() ![]() Karen remained on the farm until grasshoppers, drought and the Depression forced her to sell. She became romantically involved with Denys Finch-Hatton after her divorce. The marriage was not successful (he was a philanderer and gave her syphilis), and they separated in 1921. With the backing of their families they bought land and started a coffee plantation. Born Karen Dinesen in Denmark in 1885, she and Baron Blor Blixen-Finecke relocated to British East Africa (to what is today the country of Kenya) and were married in Mombasa in 1914. Karen Blixen (or more formally Baroness Karen von Blixen-Finecke) published in English under the pen name Isak Dinesen. Tacitus’s Latin translation of Herodotus’s history of the Persian wars, and a personal motto of Karen Blixen, who published in English under the pen name Isak Dinesen, as quoted in the Epigraph to Out of Africa. ![]() “Equitare, Arcum tendere, Veritatem dicere” or in translation “To ride, shoot straight, and tell the truth” ![]()
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