A. Karen Blixen's
farm did not make a profit any year of the
seventeen she spent in Africa. Her family, who had financed the
investment, finally insisted on a sale.
Investment
always comes with risk--particularly
when settling a little known country. The climate was unpredictable,
and Karen Blixen's land was actually too low for coffee (not "too high"
as she says in Out of Africa).
Other
factors also created problems,
such as World War I, which had a great effect on international exchange
rates--England was the world's banking center, and coffee was sold on
the London market--and the Great Depression, which affected farm prices
world wide.
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Donelson. All rights reserved. During the past quarter century, Linda Donelson has been the only
author writing about Karen Blixen for an international audience. Her
biography, Out of Isak Dinesen (1998), was the Number One Best-Selling Scandinavian / or related title at Amazon.com for five years.
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