Longing for Darkness

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In one of the most dazzling--and unlikely--books of recent times, the lost world of Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen Blixen) is stirringly re-created by her old major-domo, Kamante, the hero of her classic "Out of Africa". Here Kamante gives his version of "Out of Africa" (related to Peter Beard and then translated from Swahili and handwritten by Kamante's sons", his inspired rendering of the fables Isak Dinesen taught in Karen Coffee Farm School, and his lyrical watercolors