Karen Blixen - Isak Dinesen home

• Map of Kenya
• Key to References
• Foreword by Don Mowatt


Introduction: A Mysterious Danish Writer -- Estimating a Life -- Nairobi -- Upbringing

1913: Embarking -- The Journey -- Early Life

1914: Mombasa -- Train Ride to Nairobi -- First Impressions -- Honeymoon -- Arch Suggestions -- Planting Coffee -- Malaria -- A Change of Air -- War -- A War-Time Safari -- Frustrating Return -- Loneliness -- The Charcoal Scheme

1915: Betrayal -- Syphilis -- Return to Denmark -- Dr. Rasch

1916: Karen Coffee Corporation -- Wonderful Ideas

1917: Uneasy Matters -- Mbogani House -- Swedish Scandal -- Planning a Child

1918: Erik von Otter -- Dispensing Favors -- Finch Hatton -- A Hunt -- To Cairo -- Delamere's Wheat -- A Long Wound -- Finch Hatton's Foot

1919: Discreet Inquiries -- "Tania" -- Bror and Denys -- Estrangement

1920: Retaining a Name -- Fresh Surprises

1921: A Note in a Gun Barrel -- Uncle Aage -- Seeking Reconciliation -- Whip and Spurs -- "Weak as a Woman"

1922: Mrs. Birkbeck -- Death in the Family -- The Indian Question -- A Seduction -- The Catholic Mission -- A Miscarriage -- Christmas Visitors

1923: A Fire -- Financial Anxiety -- Lunch at Muthaiga -- Panic Attacks -- Attending to the Coffee -- Tales -- Lulu -- Berkeley Cole -- Neutral Conversations -- The Shooting Accident -- Chiromo -- Encountering Bror

1924: The Importance of Reciprocity -- A Tea Party -- Old Knudsen -- A Rapturous Visit -- Collapse -- Medals for the Masai -- A Mortifying Thought -- Ingeborg Dinesen Visits

1925: Safari in the Ngong Hills -- What Shall We Do with Our Friends? -- Paris -- Georg Brandes -- I Will Not Go Back

1926: Sinus Infection -- His Friends -- Empty-Handed -- I Shall Die If Remaining Here -- Humiliating Circumstances-- A Tirade-- Being Frank -- I Have Never Felt Anything Like It Before--A Dirty Trick -- Taking Stock -- Teaching Denys a Lesson -- Uncertainty -- Black Buffaloes -- An Essay on Sexual Morality -- The Gold Ring

1927: Je Responderay -- Three Generations of Wives -- The Stork -- A Vending Machine Tycoon -- Something the Matter with His Heart

1928: Italian Colonial Atrocities -- Kasparson -- Lions in the Coffee Field -- The Indian High Priest -- Marienbad Pills -- The Prince of Wales -- The Ngoma -- Kamante's Meal -- The Prince's Safari

1929: A Rage -- Market Crash

1930: A Scene of the First Water -- Dickensian Dilemmas -- A New Bookcase -- Beau Geste -- A Letter from a King -- Leaving Things to Themselves -- The Most Transporting Pleasure in Africa -- She Can Fly

1931: A Loan -- Locusts -- A Talk with Mohr and Denys -- The Quarrel -- Love, Denys -- I See -- Grey Geese -- Blackened Oranges -- An Appreciation -- Pellegrina Leoni

• Epilogue
• Afterword by Anne Born
• Appendix I--Isak Dinesen's Medical History
• Appendix II--Mercury vs Arsenic
• Glossary
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