LONGING FOR DARKNESS: KAMANTE'S TALES FROM OUT OF AFRICA with Photos and Captions By Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

Beard, Peter Collected By

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Langue : anglais

Edité par Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY, 1975

0151530807 / 9780151530809

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(USA) Stated first edition, No markings, faint small sticker ÈghostÈ to corner of endpaper, solid Very Good in unclipped Very Good dust jacket with a small crease to the front flap. 31 x 21 cm, hardcover, no page numbers about 200 pages, B&W photos and drawings augmented with some colour drawings. In this lovely book, the world of Isak Dinesen is re-created by her old major-domo, Kamante, the hero of her classic Out of Africa. Here Kamante gives his version of Out of Africa, related to Peter Beard and translated from Swahili and handwritten by Kamante's sons. Also included are his renderings of the Fables of Aesop, taught by Blixen at her Karen Coffee Farm School. Here, too are many never-before-unpublished photos from the collections of |Issak Dinesen, her brother Thomas, and her great friend Denys Finch-Hatton, along with Beard's own superb photos of the vanishing African wilderness. There iss an afterword by Jackie Onasis in which she calls this book "a work of love". (3.5 JM LVR 202/6 Size: Folio - over 12" - 15" tall.…

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LONGING FOR DARKNESS: KAMANTE'S TALES FROM OUT OF AFRICA with Photos and Captions By Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)
Auteur
Beard, Peter Collected By
Éditeur
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, NY
Année de publication
1975
État de l'article
Very Good
Jaquette
Very Good
Reliure
Hardcover
Langue
anglais
ISBN à 10 chiffres
0151530807
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9780151530809
Édition
1st.
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J. W. Mah

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