I Dreamed of Africa

10 best books like I Dreamed of Africa (Kuki Gallmann): Out of Africa, Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood, The House at Sugar Beach, Cry of the Kalahari, The Story of an African Farm, The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe, Out of Africa / Shadows on the Grass, Emma's War, Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm, Land of a Thousand Hills: My Life in Rwanda

Out of Africa
AuthorIsak Dinesen
ISBN0679600213
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover,...
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
AuthorAlexandra Fuller
In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate....
The House at Sugar Beach
AuthorHelene Cooper
ISBN0743266242
Journalist Helene Cooper examines the violent past of her home country Liberia and the effects of its 1980 military coup in this deeply personal memoir and finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award.

Helene Cooper is “Congo,” a descendant of two Liberian dynasties—traced...
Cry of the Kalahari
AuthorMark Owens
ISBN0618711880
Oh, to be Mark and Delia and lie under the clear sky with only lions for company. That is the stuff of dreams for an animal lover. I feel privileged to have been taken by the authors to Botswana Kalahari and given a glimpse of the rare world out there, so inaccessible to most of us. So for that, thank you, Mark...
The Story of an African Farm
AuthorOlive Schreiner
ISBN0140431845
The Story of an African Farm By Olive Schreiner A classic story of rural life in 19th Century South Africa, it is a searing indictment of the rigid Boer social conventions. The first of the great South African novels chronicles the adventures of three childhood friends who defy societal repression....
The Last Resort: A Memoir of Zimbabwe
AuthorDouglas Rogers
ISBN0307407977
Thrilling, heartbreaking, and, at times, absurdly funny, The Last Resort is a remarkable true story about one family in a country under siege and a testament to the love, perseverance, and resilience of the human spirit.

Born and raised in Zimbabwe, Douglas Rogers is the son of white farmers...
AuthorIsak Dinesen
ISBN0679724753
Out of Africa tells the story of a farm that the narrator once had in Africa. The farm is located at the foot of the Ngong hills outside of Nairobi, in what is now Kenya. It sits at an altitude of six thousand feet. The farm grows coffee, although only part of its six thousand acres is used for agriculture. The...
Emma's War
AuthorDeborah Scroggins
ISBN0375703772
Tall, striking, and adventurous to a fault, young British relief worker Emma McCune came to Sudan determined to make a difference in a country decimated by the longest-running civil war in Africa. She became a near legend in the bullet-scarred, famine-ridden country, but her eventual marriage to...
Rainbow's End: A Memoir of Childhood, War and an African Farm
AuthorLauren St. John
ISBN0743286790
This is a story about a paradise lost. . . . About an African dream that began with a murder . . .In 1978, in the final, bloodiest phase of the Rhodesian civil war, eleven-year-old Lauren St John moves with her family to Rainbow's End, a wild, beautiful farm and game reserve set on the banks of a slowflowing...
AuthorRosamond Halsey Carr
ISBN0452282020
In 1949, Rosamond Halsey Carr, a young fashion illustrator living in New York City, accompanied her dashing hunter-explorer husband to what was then the Belgian Congo. When the marriage fell apart, she decided to stay on in neighboring Rwanda, as the manager of a flower plantation. Land of a Thousand...
AuthorRobyn Scott
In this brilliant, hilarious memoir, Robyn Scott recounts the years living in Botswana while her dad works as a flying doctor. At first she thinks her parents don't have the best ideas, but soon she begins to realize the importance of her father's work. Botswana has the highest rate of HIV infection in...
Happy Valley: The Story of the English in Kenya
AuthorNicholas Best
The definitive story of the British in Kenya, from the explorer Joseph Thomson, whose exploits inspired King Solomon’s Mines, to the decadent Happy Valley set of the 1930s, the murder of Lord Erroll, and the Mau Mau revolt of the 1950s.

"Nicholas Best tells an immensely entertaining tale"...
Isak Dinesen: The Life of a Storyteller
AuthorJudith Thurman
ISBN0312135254
A brilliant literary portrait, Isak Dinesen remains the only comprehensive biography of one of the greatest storytellers of our time. Her magnificent memoir, Out of Africa, established Isak Dinesen as a major twentieth-century author, who was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize.

With...
Travel Light, Move Fast
AuthorAlexandra Fuller
From bestselling author Alexandra Fuller, the utterly original story of her father, Tim Fuller, and a deeply felt tribute to a life well lived

Six months before he died in Budapest, Tim Fuller turned to his daughter: “Let me tell you the secret to life right now, in case I suddenly give up the...
Scribbling the Cat
AuthorAlexandra Fuller
ISBN0330433997
When Alexandra Bo Fuller was in Zambia a few years ago visiting her parents, she asked her father about a nearby banana farmer who was known as being a tough bugger. Her father's response was a warning to steer clear of him: Curiosity scibbled the cat, he told her. Nonetheless, Fuller began her strange...
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