Longing for darkness - Collected by Peter Beard
Kamante's tales from Out of Africa
KORTE INHOUD
In one of the most dazzling books of recent times, the lost world of Isak Dinesen (Baroness Karen Blixen) is stirringly re-created by her old majordomo, Kamante, the herof of her classic 'Out of Africa,'. Here are Kamante's inspired renderings of the fables Isak Dinesen taught in the Karen Coffee Farm School (as related to Peter Beard, then translated from Swahili and handwritten by Kamante's sons), delightfully illustrated throughout with dozens of Kamante's lyrical watercolors.
Here, too, are never before published photographs from Dinesen's collection, from that of her brother Thomas, and from that of her great friend Denys Finch-Hatton. Here also is Peter Beard's supremely moving photographic record of the rapidly diminishing African landscape.
In her beautiful afterword to this extraordinary volume, Jacqueline Onassis writes, "Kamante's drawings and Peter Beard's photographs share the purity of a wild animal looking at the camera with free and vulnerable eyes... This book is a work of love."
Here, too, are never before published photographs from Dinesen's collection, from that of her brother Thomas, and from that of her great friend Denys Finch-Hatton. Here also is Peter Beard's supremely moving photographic record of the rapidly diminishing African landscape.
In her beautiful afterword to this extraordinary volume, Jacqueline Onassis writes, "Kamante's drawings and Peter Beard's photographs share the purity of a wild animal looking at the camera with free and vulnerable eyes... This book is a work of love."
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