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Nairobi finds: Blixen's house, rock lobster, Daisy the giraffe Series: EAST AFRICA'S MAGIC
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Last in a series
NAIROBI There's a problem with Karen Blixen's house in the suburbs
of Nairobi: It's the real Karen Blixen house.
"So many Americans, when I bring them here, they're
disappointed," said our Micato Safaris driver, Stephen. "They tell
me, `That's not the house we saw in the movie.' "
The tourists are referring to "Out of Africa" - the 1985 Meryl
Streep-Robert Redford film (adapted from the memoirs Blixen wrote
under the pen name Isak Dinesen) that sparked the cu...
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 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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ASK FRANK? WHERE WILL I GET THE 'REAL' OUT OF AFRICA TOUR? (ER..THAT'LL BE DENMARK).
The Mail on Sunday (London, England)
; ... near Nairobi. Is it open to the public? Is there a museum? GOOD news: you can visit Karen Blixen's grave - it can be found at the ... born, lived and died and which is now an excellent museum. Bad news: it's in Denmark. The Karen Blixen Museum (www. isakdinesen.dk ...
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`Out of Africa' spurs a safari to Blixen home
Chicago Sun-Times
; KAREN, Kenya On a rainy Sunday afternoon, I rode with friends out of Nairobi along Ngong Road to this suburb to visit the home of Out of Africa author Isak Dinesen, now the Karen Blixen Museum. (Dinesen was her maiden name, Isak her nom-de-plume, Blixen her married name). The home where she lived
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Staying out of Africa
The Sunday Telegraph London
; Prince William's Out of Africa birthday bash last night and the disclosure that he is learning Swahili should have been a wonderful boost for tourism in Kenya this summer. However, Foreign Office warnings about the high risk of terrorism mean that anyone inspired to visit Karen Blixen's farm at the
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(book reviews)
Scandinavian Studies
; This collection of essays follows on the heels of Olga Pelensky's Isak Dinesen: The Life and Imagination of a Seducer, published in 1991, also by Ohio University Press (see Scandinavian Studies 64:1, 176-9). Both books are attractively produced and on a subject of interest to Scandinavianists and
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The Guillotine: Twentieth-Century Classics That Won't Last No 14: KARE N BLIXEN
The Independent - London
; It's a droll paradox of political correctness that, even in a column of this kind, which ventures to speculate on the gradual disappearance from our culture of artists once considered significant, one instinctively feels the need to balance the mix by including as many women as possible.
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Viewing Karen Blixen's home in Denmark
Chicago Sun-Times
; Q.A couple of years ago, after seeing "Out of Africa," I visited the house where Karen Blixen lived, outside Nairobi, Kenya. I would also like to visit Blixen's Denmark home. Can you give me details? A.The Danish author Karen Blixen - who used the pen name Isak Dinesen (her maiden name was Dinesen)
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Birthday words..(Astrology)
The Mirror (London, England)
; We must leave our mark on life while we have it in our power, but it should close up, when we leave it; without a trace. - Writer Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen), born this day in 1885.
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Hans-Goran Ekman. Karen Blixens paradoxer. Om Sju romantiska berattelser, Den afrikanska farmen och Vintersagor.(Book Review)
Scandinavian Studies
; Uppsala: Gidlunds forlag, 2002. Pp. 203. Hans-Goran Ekman is a docent at Uppsala University who has written a number of books, the most noteworthy dealing with Lars Ahlin and August Strindberg. Ekman is therefore no stranger to challenging writers, and it was with great expectations that I read his
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 "The Daily Mail (London, England)")
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Charming his way from Eton to Africa; Critic's choice.(Book Review)
The Daily Mail (London, England)
; Byline: ALEXANDER CHANCELLOR TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF DENYS FINCH HATTON, by Sara Wheeler (Cape, [pounds sterling]18.99) THE TROUBLE with Denys Finch Hatton from a biographer's point of view is that the quality for which he was most famous - his 'defining characteristic', as they
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Frantz Leander Hansen. The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny and the Denial of Fate.(Book Review)
Scandinavian Studies
; Frantz Leander Hansen. The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen: Destiny and the Denial of Fate. Trans. Gaye Kynoch. Brighton: Sussex Academic P, 2003. Pp. i-ix + 165. Frantz Leander Hansen's book, The Aristocratic Universe of Karen Blixen, is enjoyable to read. Even though a number of the points
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