Karen Blixen at Home is a journey into the great writer's life and daily living on the family estate Rungstedlund, north of Copenhagen. Here she was born and raised and here she spent the remaining 31 years of her life after the African intermission. This became a turning point in her life and was also the inspiration and background for her novel Out of Africa. She was never again to visit the farm at Ngong Hills, but it was forever present in her life. Nonetheless she loved Rungstedlund so profoundly that she invested her whole personality in creating a home here.
Today the house is not merely a museum, but more like a living epilogue to Karen Blixen. Through the magnificent floral arrangements, created in her spirit, you still detect the atmosphere that made this place so attractive to her many guests. In her time, she gathered a great number of Danish and international personalities around her table, among others writers such as Sybille Bedford, Aldous Huxley and John Steinbeck, the actor John Gielgud, the photographer Cecil Beaton and the physicist and Nobel Prize winner Niels Bohr.
Karen Blixen enjoyed the role as a hostess and the book includes recipes from the kitchen at Rungstedlund. Get the book Karen Blixen At home now.
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