走出非洲（英文版）

    《走出非洲》是迪内森的自传性小说，作家以优美的文字叙述了1914年至1931年在非洲经营咖啡农场的生活，充满深情地回忆了非洲的自然景色、动物和人。

作者简介：
伊萨克·迪内森（Lsak Dinesen）丹麦著名女作家，1885年生于西兰岛龙斯特兹一个贵族家庭。早年就读于丹麦艺术学院，后在巴黎和罗马学习绘画。1914年随男爵丈夫旅居肯尼亚，经营咖啡农场。1931年返回丹麦，后来从事文学创作。1934年发表描写非洲生活的小说集《七个神奇的故事》（Seven Gothic Tales）一举成名。主要作品有：《走出非洲》（Out of Africa）、《草坪上的影子》（Shadows on the Grass）、《冬天的故事》（Winter's Tales）等。《走出非洲》被改编成电影，获奥斯卡奖。迪内森于1962年去世。

    作者用优美的文字写出了对非洲风土人情的熟悉和眷恋，处处洋溢着散文美的内涵。《大西洋月刊》称誉作者为“我们时代最优雅最独特的艺术家之一。”女作家尤多拉·威尔蒂称此书让人一瞥作者异常的心智。《纽约时报》书评称迪内森是“有着非凡想像力的作家，机敏而智慧。”1985年，根据此书改编的电影获奥斯卡奖，为作者赢得国际声誉。

    

Out of Africa
1. KAMANTE AND LULU
The Ngong Farm
A Native Child
The Savage in the Immigrant''s House
A Gazelle
2. A SHOOTING ACCIDENT ON THE FARM
The Shooting Accident
Riding in the Reserve
Wamai
Wanyangerri
A Kikuyu Chief
3. VISITORS TO THE FARM
Big Dances
A Visitor from Asia
The Somali Women
Old Knuthen
A Fugitive Rests on the Farm
out of Africa
Visits of Friends
The Noble Pioneer
Wings
4. FROM AN
IMMIGRANT''S NOTEBOOK
The Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild
The Firenies
The Roads of Life
Esa''s Story
The lguana
Farah and the Merchant of Venice
The tlite of Bournemouth
Of Pride
The Oxen
Of the Two Races
A War-Time Safari
The Swaheli Numeral System
"I Will Not Let Thee Go Except Thou Bless Me"
The Eclipse of the Moon
Natives and Verse
Of the Millennium
Kitosch''s Story
Some African Birds
Pania
Esa''s Death
Of Natives and History
The Earthquake
George
Kejiko
The Githe Go to Hamburg
Contents
In the Menagerie
Fellow-Travellers
The Naturalist and the Monkeys
Karomenya
Pooran Singh
A Strange Happening
The Parrot
5. FAREWELL TO THE FARM
Hard Times
The Death of Kinanjui
The Grave in the Hills
Farah and I Sell Out
Farewell
Shadows On the Grass

When at last he began to speak it was only to state,slowly and dismally, that he thought things were bad. A little later he added in a vague manner, as if it were altogether a matter to be ignored, that he had now paid over ten sheep to Wainaina. And now Wainaina, he went on, wanted a cow and calf from him as well, and he was going to give them to him. Why had he done that, I asked him, when no judgment had yet been given? Kaninu did not answer, he did not even look at me. He was, this evening, a traveller or pilgrim who had no continuing city. He had come in, as it were on his way, to report to me, and now he was off again. I could not but think that he was ill, after a pause I said that I would take him into hospital the next day. At that he gave me a short, painful glance: the old mocker was being bitterly mocked. But before he went away he did a curious thing, he lifted up a hand to his face as if he were wiping off a tear. It would be a strange thing, like the flowering of the pilgrim's staff, should Kaninu have tears in him to shed, and stranger still that he should put them to no use. I wondered
what had been happening on the farm while I had had my thoughts off it. When Kaninu had gone I sent for Farah and asked him.
What happened I do not know. All of a sudden the ring swayed, and was broken, some one shrieked aloud, in some seconds the whole place before me was a mass of running,thronging people, there was the sound of blows and of bodies
falling to the ground, and over our heads the night air was undulating with spears. We all got up, even the wise old women of the centre, who crawled on to the stacks of fire wood to see what was going on.
ne year the Iong rains failed.
That is a terrible, tremendous experience, and the farmer who has lived through it, will never forget it. Years afterwards, away from Africa, in the wet climate of a Northern country, he will start up at night, at the sound of a ……