Karen Blixen

In addition to the louche colonials, its original guests would have included the likes of Karen Blixen, author of the classic "Out of Africa," and the aviator Beryl Markham.

Andrew Harper: The Sad Decline of The Norfolk, Nairobi Andrew Harper 2010

In addition to the louche colonials, its original guests would have included the likes of Karen Blixen, author of the classic "Out of Africa," and the aviator Beryl Markham.

Andrew Harper: The Sad Decline of The Norfolk, Nairobi Andrew Harper 2010

Growing up, Vivienne de Watteville, Beryl Markham, and of course Karen Blixen, were my heroines, their adventures, romances, and dogged determination in the face of physical, mental and emotional challenges, my inspiration.

Lauren Scott: Safari. Lauren Scott 2010

†His sister Alfhild maintained that it was principally the tales of the Danish Karen Blixen that made her brother long to go to East Africa—Conversation with author, 08/07/92.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

In addition to the louche colonials, its original guests would have included the likes of Karen Blixen, author of the classic "Out of Africa," and the aviator Beryl Markham.

Andrew Harper: The Sad Decline of The Norfolk, Nairobi Andrew Harper 2010

Growing up, Vivienne de Watteville, Beryl Markham, and of course Karen Blixen, were my heroines, their adventures, romances, and dogged determination in the face of physical, mental and emotional challenges, my inspiration.

Lauren Scott: Safari. 2010

Apparently I was going to be appearing as the Countess Karen Blixen, like it or not.

David Dean Bottrell: Streep Tease 2010

Although not fiction, "Out of Africa," a memoir by Karen Blixen, a Danish aristocrat writing under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen, tells of her extraordinary years (1914 to 1931) managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.

Tales Out of Africa 2010

Finally, it occurred to me that Karen Blixen (AKA Isak Dinesen) was a storyteller, as am I.

David Dean Bottrell: Streep Tease 2010

Olive Schreiner was not an aristocrat, and her perception of the Africa where she was born is a different perception than, for instance, the perception of someone like Karen Blixen, who, for all her remarkable empathy, brought her aristocratic assumptions to the continent and conceived herself as a benevolent goddess on a farm that existed because of the land-grabbing and punitive tax policies of the colonists.

The Story of an African Farm 2010