With classic simplicity and a painter's feeling for atmosphere and detail, Isak Dinesen tells of the years she spent from 1914 to 1931 managing a coffee plantation in Kenya.

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 Knudsen
A Fugitive Rests on the Farm
Visits of Friends
The Noble Pioneer
Wings

4. From an Immigrant's Notebook

The Wild Came to the Aid of the Wild
The Fireflies
The Roads of Life
Esa's Story
The lguana
Farah and the Merchant of Venice
The Elite 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 Giraffes Go to Hamburg
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