![]() ![]() With the uncle they founded the Karen Coffee Company and set about establishing their coffee farm. But they later changed their minds, having become convinced that coffee would be more profitable. Using an investment from their common uncle, the couple bought land in what was then British East Africa, planning to start a cattle farm. He was a keen big game hunter, a pursuit still considered acceptable at the time (something you must bear in mind when learning about Karen and/or reading her book). In 1914 she married her Swedish second cousin, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke, becoming Baroness Blixen. ![]() Karen was born in 1885, as Karen Dinesen, into a wealthy Danish family. The book presents a vivid, if at times uncomfortable, picture of African colonial life and the relationships between colonists and native inhabitants. It was the 1920s, and this was British East Africa, not Kenya – part of the (by then fading) British Empire. With this sentence Karen Blixen opens her account of life on a coffee plantation just outside Nairobi. ![]() I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills Karen Blixen, Out of Africa ![]()
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