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Whatever You Do, Don't Run
- True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
- 著者: Peter Allison
- ナレーター: Antony Ferguson
- 再生時間: 6 時間 45 分
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals: herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides whose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a pride of hungry lions!
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The Paris Wife
- 著者: Paula McLain
- ナレーター: Carrington MacDuffie
- 再生時間: 11 時間 26 分
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Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy 28-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity.
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A Ticket to Ride
- 著者: Paula McLain
- ナレーター: Chloe Cannon
- 再生時間: 7 時間 53 分
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In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who's come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an "unmentionable act". It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends - and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own complicity in the disaster that takes shape around them.
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- 著者: Martin Dugard
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 11 時間 46 分
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"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" So goes the signature introduction of New York Herald star journalist Henry Morton Stanley to renowned explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who had been missing for six years in the wilds of Africa. Into Africa ushers us into the meeting of these remarkable men. In 1866, when Livingstone journeyed into the heart of the African continent in search of the Nile's source, the land was rough, unknown to Europeans, and inhabited by man-eating tribes.
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The Aeneid
- 著者: Virgil
- ナレーター: Simon Callow
- 再生時間: 12 時間 26 分
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The publication of a new translation by Fagles is a literary event. His translations of both the Iliad and Odyssey have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have become the standard translations of our era. Now, with this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles has reintroduced Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation, and completed the classical triptych at the heart of Western civilization.
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Travels with Myself and Another
- A Memoir
- 著者: Martha Gellhorn
- ナレーター: Rebecca Lowman, Harry Nangle
- 再生時間: 13 時間 19 分
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"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run
- True Tales of a Botswana Safari Guide
- 著者: Peter Allison
- ナレーター: Antony Ferguson
- 再生時間: 6 時間 45 分
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Whatever You Do, Don't Run is a hilarious collection of true tales from top safari guide Peter Allison. In a place where the wrong behavior could get you eaten, Allison has survived face-to-face encounters with big cats, angry elephants, and the world's most unpredictable animals: herds of untamed tourists and foolhardy guides whose outrageous antics sometimes make them even more dangerous than a pride of hungry lions!
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The Paris Wife
- 著者: Paula McLain
- ナレーター: Carrington MacDuffie
- 再生時間: 11 時間 26 分
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Chicago, 1920: Hadley Richardson is a shy 28-year-old who has all but given up on love and happiness when she meets Ernest Hemingway and is captivated by his energy, intensity and burning ambition to write. After a whirlwind courtship and wedding, the pair set sail for France. But glamorous Jazz Age Paris, full of artists and writers, fuelled by alcohol and gossip, is no place for family life and fidelity.
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A Ticket to Ride
- 著者: Paula McLain
- ナレーター: Chloe Cannon
- 再生時間: 7 時間 53 分
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In the long, hot Illinois summer of 1973, insecure, motherless Jamie falls under the dangerous spell of her older, more worldly cousin Fawn, who's come to stay with Jamie and her uncle as penance for committing an "unmentionable act". It is a time of awakenings and corruptions, of tragedy and loss, as Jamie slowly discovers the extent to which Fawn will use anything and anyone to further her own ends - and recognizes, perhaps too late, her own complicity in the disaster that takes shape around them.
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Into Africa
- The Epic Adventures of Stanley and Livingstone
- 著者: Martin Dugard
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 11 時間 46 分
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"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" So goes the signature introduction of New York Herald star journalist Henry Morton Stanley to renowned explorer Dr. David Livingstone, who had been missing for six years in the wilds of Africa. Into Africa ushers us into the meeting of these remarkable men. In 1866, when Livingstone journeyed into the heart of the African continent in search of the Nile's source, the land was rough, unknown to Europeans, and inhabited by man-eating tribes.
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The Aeneid
- 著者: Virgil
- ナレーター: Simon Callow
- 再生時間: 12 時間 26 分
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The publication of a new translation by Fagles is a literary event. His translations of both the Iliad and Odyssey have sold hundreds of thousands of copies and have become the standard translations of our era. Now, with this stunning modern verse translation, Fagles has reintroduced Virgil's Aeneid to a whole new generation, and completed the classical triptych at the heart of Western civilization.
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Travels with Myself and Another
- A Memoir
- 著者: Martha Gellhorn
- ナレーター: Rebecca Lowman, Harry Nangle
- 再生時間: 13 時間 19 分
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"Martha Gellhorn was so fearless in a male way, and yet utterly capable of making men melt," writes New Yorker literary editor Bill Buford. As a journalist, Gellhorn covered every military conflict from the Spanish Civil War to Vietnam and Nicaragua. She also bewitched Eleanor Roosevelt's secret love and enraptured Ernest Hemingway with her courage as they dodged shell fire together.
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Bleak House
- The Audible Dickens Collection
- 著者: Charles Dickens
- ナレーター: Miriam Margolyes
- 再生時間: 43 時間 12 分
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This Audible Exclusive performance features a unique introduction written and narrated by Miriam Margolyes. Recognised as one of Dickens' most accomplished titles, Bleak House has impressed critics and audiences alike since it was first published in 1852. The novel boasts one of the most intelligent and engaging plots in all of English literature and is sure to engage the listener's imagination as it transports us back in time to the seedy, grimy and hazardous streets of Victorian London.
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An Elephant in My Kitchen
- What the Herd Taught Me About Love, Courage, and Survival
- 著者: Françoise Malby-Anthony, Katja Willemsen
- ナレーター: Roshina Ratnam
- 再生時間: 8 時間 24 分
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A chic Parisienne, Françoise never expected to find herself living on a South African game reserve. But then, she fell in love with conservationist Lawrence Anthony, and everything changed. After Lawrence’s death, Françoise faced the daunting responsibility of running Thula Thula without him. Poachers attacked their rhinos, their security team wouldn’t take orders from a woman, and the authorities were threatening to cull their beloved elephant family. On top of that, the herd’s feisty new matriarch, Frankie, didn’t like her.
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Angle of Repose
- 著者: Wallace Stegner
- ナレーター: Mark Bramhall
- 再生時間: 22 時間 9 分
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Wallace Stegner's uniquely American classic centers on Lyman Ward, a noted historian who relates a fictionalized biography of his pioneer grandparents at a time when he has become estranged from his own family. Through a combination of research, memory, and exaggeration, Ward voices ideas concerning the relationship between history and the present, art and life, parents and children, and husbands and wives.
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Rebecca
- 著者: Daphne du Maurier
- ナレーター: Harriet Walter
- 再生時間: 3 時間 6 分
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When Maxim de Winter brings his shy new bride to his beautiful stately home on the Cornwall coast, it seems like all her dreams have come true. The terrace slopes to the lawns, the lawns stretch to the sea and the gardens are full of scented flowers. But she soon finds that Manderley is haunted by the shadow of Maxim's first wife, Rebecca, who died the year before. It was Rebecca who made the house and gardens the showpiece of the county and her memory is revered by all, especially the housekeeper Mrs Danvers.
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Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
- An African Childhood
- 著者: Alexandra Fuller
- ナレーター: Lisette Lecat
- 再生時間: 10 時間 11 分
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Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe. The daughter of hardworking, yet strikingly unconventional English-bred immigrants, Alexandra arrives in Africa at the tender age of two. She moves through life with a hardy resilience, even as a bloody war approaches. Narrator Lisette Lecat reads this remarkable memoir of a family clinging to a harsh landscape and the dying tenets of colonialism.
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Warlight
- 著者: Michael Ondaatje
- ナレーター: George Blagden
- 再生時間: 7 時間 32 分
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London, 1945. The capital is still reeling from the war. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel and his older sister Rachel are abandoned by their parents who leave the country on business, and are left in the dubious care of a mysterious figure named The Moth. Nathaniel is introduced to The Moth’s band of criminal misfits and is caught up in a series of teenage misadventures, from smuggling greyhounds for illegal dog racing to lovers’ trysts in abandoned buildings at night. But is this eccentric crew really what and who they claim to be? And most importantly, what happened to Nathaniel’s mother?
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The Liar's Club
- A Memoir
- 著者: Mary Karr
- ナレーター: Mary Karr
- 再生時間: 4 時間 8 分
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Mary Karr's biography looks back through a child's eyes to sort through dark household secrets. She witnesses an inheritance squandered, endless bottles emptied, and guns leveled at both the deserving and the undeserving. In a voice stripped of self-pity and charged with brilliant energy, she introduces us to a family ravaged by lies and alcoholism, yet redeemed by the revelation of truth.
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The History of the Ancient World
- From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
- 著者: Susan Wise Bauer
- ナレーター: John Lee
- 再生時間: 26 時間 20 分
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This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and vivid attention to the individual lives that give flesh to abstract assertions about human history. This narrative history employs the methods of "history from beneath" - literature, epic traditions, private letters, and accounts - to connect kings and leaders with the lives of those they ruled.
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Quiet Until the Thaw
- A Novel
- 著者: Alexandra Fuller
- ナレーター: Alma Cuervo
- 再生時間: 4 時間 44 分
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Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger toward the injustices, historical and current, inflicted upon the Lakota people by the federal government leads to tribal divisions and infighting, the cousins go in separate directions: Rick chooses the path of peace; You Choose, violence.
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Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
- 著者: Alexandra Fuller
- ナレーター: Bianca Amato
- 再生時間: 7 時間 45 分
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Alexandra Fuller won worldwide attention, popular acclaim, and critical accolades for her memoir of her childhood in Africa, Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight. This engaging follow-up explores Fuller’s parents’ childhoods and charts the trajectories of their lives through all the British couple’s experiences in war-torn Africa. With the same sharply etched narrative that has earned the author such immense praise, Fuller expands on and offers new insights into her family’s remarkable trials and successes.
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Seabiscuit
- An American Legend
- 著者: Laura Hillenbrand
- ナレーター: George Newbern
- 再生時間: 13 時間 13 分
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Seabiscuit was one of the most electrifying and popular attractions in sports history and the single biggest newsmaker in the world in 1938, receiving more coverage than FDR, Hitler, or Mussolini. But his success was a surprise to the racing establishment, which had written off the crooked-legged racehorse with the sad tail.
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The Golden Notebook
- 著者: Doris Lessing
- ナレーター: Juliet Stevenson
- 再生時間: 27 時間 33 分
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Author Anna Wulf attempts to overcome writer’s block by writing a comprehensive "golden notebook" that draws together the preoccupations of her life, each of which is examined in a different notebook. Anna’s struggle to unify the various strands of her life – emotional, political, and professional – amasses into a fascinating encyclopaedia of female experience in the ‘50s.
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Out of Africa:
In this audiobook, the author of Seven Gothic Tales gives a true account of her life on her plantation in Kenya. She tells with classic simplicity of the ways of the country and the natives; of the beauty of the Ngong Hills and coffee trees in blossom; of her guests, from the Prince of Wales to Knudsen, the old charcoal burner, who visited her; of primitive festivals; of big game that were her near neighbors - lions, rhinos, elephants, zebras, buffaloes; and of Lulu, the little gazelle who came to live with her, unbelievably ladylike and beautiful.
Shadows on the Grass:
Isak Dineson takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixon. With warmth and humanity, these four stories illuminate her love for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, "Echoes from the Hills", was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960, when the author was in her 70s. In all they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.
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- Jay Quintana
- 2016/03/26
Sketches of Africa
This is beautifully written. We learn about the land, the people, the animals, and the farm. But very little of Blixen/Dinesen. I don't remember if she relates a single experience with her husband. His presence in the book is that slight. As for the other men in her life, they come across here as nothing more than platonic friends. If you want to know what Africa -- well, the part of Africa where Blixen/Dinesen resided -- was like in the early part of the 20th century, this is a must listen. If you're looking for an absorbing narrative -- the print version of the movie -- this will almost certainly disappoint.
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- BillieJ
- 2018/10/25
A life well lived.
Years ago when I first read her words they awoke in me a desire to remember her and those wonderful people each of whom were her family while she drank in Africa. It has given me much to strive for in my own life and to take in all those I’m blessed to know. This Audible production was a joy as it accompanied me through days of routines, driving and quiet rain. I’m most grateful to have been touched so thoroughly.
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- debra
- 2018/08/31
Great Story
Narrator makes it come alive. A life well told and place that time has forgotten.
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- Jenifer Reynolds
- 2020/07/21
Lovely book for its time
A gently written and poignant tale from an earlier time, painting a picture of a beautiful place being spoiled by ignorant colonialism. Even though the author was a colonizer herself, her love for the place and the people where she farmed in Kenya shines through some of her outdated ideas. The use of the term "squatter" for the original inhabitants of her farm is particularly grating, even though it was common parlance at the time. Like George Catlin's portraits and descriptions of Native American society, this book leaves me once again wondering how different this world would look if Europeans had never left Europe. I liked the reader's delivery very much. For me she seemed to capture the spirit of the author, admiring, insightful, wistful, but not sad or depressing.
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- Susan G. Brink
- 2019/08/31
Superb
A marvelous story teller and human being, Karen Blixen brings alive her time in Kenya after WW I. Her generosity of character and superb descriptions of her friends and servants...Somalians, Masai, Kikuyu and Europeans...enriches the reader and shatters preconceptions.
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- Deborah Freitag
- 2017/08/08
Disappointing
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I downloaded this book to listen on the way to/from the office about 1 hrs. drive. It nearly put me to sleep. I was trying very hard to escape into the story but it was so dry. I didn't complete it. I just couldn't get through the long drawn out chapters. I LOVED the screen adaptation and should have just downloaded that one. Live and Learn.
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- shan Zhang
- 2017/06/22
enjoyed every bit of this book.
What did you love best about Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass?
described the moon like a silver arch hung on the blue sky.
What other book might you compare Out of Africa & Shadows on the Grass to and why?
green hills of Africa by Hemingway.
What about Susan Lyons’s performance did you like?
peaceful.
Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?
Denis was buried in her farm.
Any additional comments?
the book brought my dear memories of Tanzania .
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- Lindsay Lovinger Watkins
- 2016/04/22
It had my heart from page one!
I could only hope my own life could be rich. I highly recommend filling your life with these stories!
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- barbara
- 2019/02/23
Insanely unwoke and colonialist but beautiful
This is such a period piece, written by a titled and entitled European who was nonetheless pretty enlightened for her time and class. The author clearly cares about the people who work on her coffee plantation, and takes pains to adjudicate disputes fairly and equitably. She does her best, within the context of the insane colonialist attitudes in which she and the British colonialist government are steeped, to care for her workers and their families. Yet her continual references to "my houseboys" and "my squatters," and the ways in which she attempts to sum up the attitudes and behaviors of entire tribes based on the few she knows, and the horrifying observations about the mental capacities of certain tribes can't help but be severely cringe-worthy. Her description of and buy-in to some of the repressive laws of British colonial Kenya banning certain Kikuyu dances and making it illegal for the Masai to possess spears, for example, bring to mind the worst and most limited white fear-mongering pith-helmeted petty bureaucrats set on trying to control their subjects. It's painful to consider the ways in which colonial governments of that era messed up tribal boundaries and tribal relations, which had worked fine for millennia prior to the arrival of the rapacious white man.
Dineson is at her best when describing wildlife and nature. She has a great eye for the beauty and majesty of the land and its flora and fauna. She is an impressive European female of her era, to be running a farm on her own, killing lions, and working, for a time, running goods for the British government in WWI. Still, this reader, admittedly an animal lover, was nauseated by her wanton killing of wildlife (such as the time she shot an iguana "because I might be able to use its beautiful skin for something" only to discover that its skin turned grey the moment it died). I know those were different times, but the big game hunter mentality is utterly disgusting to me, and there's a lot of that sort of thing in this book.
There's only one mention of her husband, who lived in Europe, and much gushing about Dennis Finch Hatton and others. But the book is really a collection of vignettes about the farm, its workers, and nature.
I'm glad I listened, but at times it was very painful and I almost gave it up. The narrator has a rather piercing upper-class-sounding English inflection, which didn't help. Still, the beauty of the narrative and the fascination for this out-dated way of life are compelling enough to make me glad I stuck with it.
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- Joe
- 2021/01/17
This was a re-read
I read this book back in 1985 when the movie came out. The book is more about Africa and her adventures than the love story in the movie. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. I didn't care for the performance, I have heard tape recordings of Isak. I didn't know if narrator's accent was really the narrator or if she was pretending to be Isak Dinesen. Isak sounds like a difficult person with many issues in her life. We tried to find her house (now a museum in Denmark) but we missed it. I would have liked to see the books that belonged to Denys Finch-Hatton.
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- Caroline Lawrence
- 2017/01/18
Perfect for Africa!
Another reviewer complained about the reader but I thought she was perfect. This is a beautifully written and fascinating story but be warned: it's not the love story they made the movie into!
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- mr
- 2020/06/05
Beautiful
This book is a love story between the author and Africa. It will give the reader / listener a deep understanding of Africa and her people. Beautiful
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- J. Stephens
- 2020/05/01
Atmospheric
I loved this audio book
I thought the narration was quite right
Karen was a wonderful women (apart from all the hunting!)
Her stories ring true, clearly you can see them, smell them, feel them and hear the sounds of Africa.
Perfect escapism
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- 匿名
- 2018/06/12
A wonderful literary and audio experience
Karen Blixen's writings are captivating, beautifully detailed, sensory, and sometimes magical. It it amazing that one person could have had so many and such diverse experiences as Blixon had during her time in Africa. She romantices nothing and tells her stories with great authenticity when one considers the time and ethos of writing. Her approach is obviously questionable today because of how she addressed and viewed the local populations, especially the othering (almost dehumanization) of Africa's indigenous people. It makes one very uncomfortable on many occasions but it is relevant to experience it to gain more insight into the biases and prejudices that collonial settlers brought with them. The discomfort provides one with a better understanding of this sad part of Africa's history.
The narrator did an excellent job of portraying Blixen's personality. Her intonation and accent sounds uncanningly like several of my Danish friends. Every second of the the 16 hours and 35 minutes was captivating and time well spent. I will surely listen to this audio book again just like I re-read the original books several times over the years.
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- UrskaF
- 2016/02/12
Terrible performance
It took me a while to find the unabridged audio edition for this book. I love the story and have read it time and again. Unfortunately the narrator took all the pleasure out of this one, for me at least. She speaks way too fast and her voice remains flat all the while. The real pleasure of reading Karen Blixen is not only in the stories but mostly in her writing style and descriptions of things and people. She needs to be savored like a good, expensive wine. In this narrattive she gets chugged down like cheap beer.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021/01/17
I really struggled to finish it.
I didn't enjoy it, no plot, no thrill, very chaotic
I regret spending the money on it.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2018/09/12
narrator's voice too nervous/loud
narrator's voice too annoying. She almost shouts at times, like she thinks she's on stage
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- Abdelhadi Mortada
- 2018/08/01
Great narration, and the text then revield itself.
A great book. It was written with fine observation of the mileu the author in which she in among was quite fulfilled with the indignation of culturalism.