Word: isak
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...AFRICA-Isak Dinesen-Ran-dom House...
...best of the three is Out of Africa, by the author of Seven Gothic Tales, an eerie, distinguished best-seller of 1934. It was later revealed that Isak Dinesen is the pseudonym of the Baroness Karen Blixen-Finecke, a slender, pale, large-eyed, middle-aged Danish woman whose divorced husband is a well-known big-game hunter, Baron Bror von Blixen-Finecke, a distant cousin of King Christian of Denmark. Married in 1914, they went out to British East Africa, where her family bought them a 6,000-acre coffee plantation in the Ngong Hills near Nairobi, capital of Kenya...
...Isak Dinesen identified herself with the dying slave-owning aristocracy, which feels a closer relation with its slaves than the interloping middle class. With the same aristocratic naturalness she let two high-born English bachelors make her home their headquarters. They taught her the Greek poets, practiced the art of conversation, took her in a plane over East Africa, and their death, during her last weeks in Africa, was interwoven with the bitter loss of her farm...
...longest section to a hunting trip with the Prince of Wales-"perhaps the toughest sportsman of them all." Except for an occasional game beater. Baron Blixen-Finecke does not care much for natives. Now married to an adventurous, pretty, 29-year-old Englishwoman, he remembers his first wife (Isak Dinesen) for one incident, when she flew unarmed at two lions that had attacked an ox, lashed them into the jungle with a stock whip...
Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke is a distant cousin of Denmark's King Christian. His first wife is a middle-aged woman named Ellen, who divorced him in 1921, wrote best-selling Seven Gothic Tales in 1934 under the pseudonym Isak Dinesen. Baron Bror's second wife is a pert, pretty, English girl of 28, named Eva, who spends most of her time seeking adventure. During one long trek alone in Africa, her automobile broke down. She had to be pushed by natives for 32 days. In Ethiopia last year she watched...