“There is something about safari life that makes you forget all your sorrows and feel as if you had drunk half a bottle of champagne — bubbling over with heartfelt gratitude for being alive.”

— Karen Blixen , book Out of Africa

Out of Africa (1937)

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Danish writer 1885–1962

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