Out of Africa by Keran Blixen

"The Grass was me,

The Air ...

The distant invisible Mountains were me,

The tired Oxen were me,

I breathed with the slight night wind through the thorn-tree."

is an autobiographical account of a lady who spent more than a decade on a farmland in Kenyia and actively participated in farm life as well as country life. Her description of African landscape is fabulous. she makes you feel that you are living in that landscape at the very moment. She describes wild instincts of Natives, traditions, values, customs of Muhammadan Somalis, behaviors and misconceptious biases of settlers interestingly. 

She has keen interest in wild life, landscapes and weather of Africa. Her accounts include the legal cases among Natives n Somali wherein she served as judge, of her Native Squatters whom she was a keeper, a doctor and a teacher at the same time, of Game safaris far inlands of Kenya, of lion hunting, of happenings on coffee farms, of long rains, of short rains, of no rains are of great interest as well as of learning. She made a good comparison of difference of opinion among Settlers, Natives and Somalis based on their biases, instincts and religion respectively.

WARNING:

DO NOT watch the movie based on this book. They have destroyed the adventure element of the story and have turned it into a cheap love story filled with sex.