Letters from Africa 1914-1931

"Here is a rich new biographical perspective on the brilliant storyteller whose sophisticated romantic fiction . . . made her an international success and perpetual candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature. . . . [These letters] contain the raw material that was later transformed into her classic memoir "Out of Africa (1937).

They also reveal her as a highly intelligent and sensitive analyst of a strange new world."--Bruce Allen, "Christian Science Monitor ""Letters from Africa is literary gold, 24 karat."--Alden Whitman, "Boston Globe