Belle, Book, and Candle

In keeping with my recent 'trip' to Africa via Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham, I watched the film Out of Africa starring Meryl S...

West With the Night is quite an exciting tale or really series of tales made up of Beryl Markham's reminiscences of her life  in Af...

While reading Out of Africa I couldn't help picturing Karen Blixen (writing as Isak Dinesen) sitting at her desk in watery Denmark ...

When I finished reading Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen) written about her twelve years as a young woman in Kenya trying t...

I am almost finished reading the mesmerizing  Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen which recounts her years spent on her coffee plantation nea...

Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen I now find myself in possession of two books with African ties:  a hardcover edition of Out of Africa by Is...

"Elmer Gantry was drunk. He was eloquently drunk, lovingly and pugnaciously drunk." Sinclair Lewis: Elmer Gantry (1926) Pict...