Longing for Darkness: Kamante's Tales from Out of Africa, with Original Photographs (January 1914-July 1931) and Quotations from Isak Dinese

by Kamante, Peter (with photographs and captions by Isak Dinesen {pseudonym of Baroness Karen Blixen} ) Kamante,, Peter (with photographs and captions by Isak Dinesen {pseudonym of Baroness Karen Blixen} ) Kamante,

Book Overview

Isak Dinesen and the land and people she loved are nowhere so real and compelling as in Longing for Darkness, written by Dinesen's majordomo, Kamante, and now boasting a smart new cover. Readers... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0151530807
• ISBN13: 9780151530809
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 2.84 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Longing for Darkness

For anyone who fell in love with Peter Beard's writing and stories, this book is an interesting follow-up. Probably best for big fans of African adventure stories. A must for travel journal writers, due to it's handwritten text and drawings.

The book as dream and fondest memory

I had a hardback copy of a previous edition which somehow slipped through my grasp and for which I have been searching vainly for twenty years. The combination of cultural perspectives effortlessly and simulataneously presented in a correspondent range of visual and graphical styles, telling stories of quiet appreciation and respect enchanted me like no other book, and I am grateful at least for finding a paperback edition and a thread to keep my hopes alive.

For all Karen Blixen lovers

Peter Beard has lived near Karen Blixen's farm and collected her story from many of her friends and staff in Africa. In this beautiful book he assembles excellent original photographs of Karen Blixen and enhances them with photographs of his own from Africa. The commentary is by Kamante Gatura, Karen Blixen's cook. A fascinating book, especially because Kamante's version differs from that of some of Karen Blixen's biographers. The illustrations compliment a reading of Linda Donelson's "Out of Isak Dinesen in Africa: Karen Blixen's untold story."

My most treasured possession - exquisite, magical!

Peter Beard has shown us another dimension of Isak Dinesen's (Karen Blixen) life as told in "Out of Africa". This time however,those days are described by Kamante Gatura, who, as a young boy was employed by Ms Dinesen. Kamante's memories are translated & written down...the result is an enchanting, magical book; it is the only book I would risk everything for to retrieve from a burning building...it is my most treasured possession.