A review by annaroosvw
Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen

5.0

I am pretty sure that Isak (or should I say Karen) turns over in her grave when she hears another happy tourist bragging about a safari tour along the big 5. Out of Africa takes you to rural Africa in a time where the game reserve only just begun. She captured the barren, lively rituals of the natives as pure as they come: a loved one died? Leave them for the lions to finish. No doctor in town? Try some things out, call yourself a docter, see how it goes. For etymology lovers as myself, the book contains some beautiful Swahili words such as Nataka Kufa (he is ready to die now). The natives, as Karen describes, are way more 'kali' (fierce) than the British and French from the West. They don't fear Death, are more tolerant for other religions, way more sensitive to nature, and mostly: masters at accepting life as it is.

Filled with beautiful considerations. One of my favorites:
The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control. Great landscapes create themselves, long splendid views, rich and delicate colours, roads, houses, which he has never seen or heard of...