The Last Season..Good Book

[Helena]

Just finished reading ...the Last Season.. by Eric Blehm. A good read about a rager that was lost in the back country of California. Seems as though every summer I get into these types of books.. Last year read just bout all of Anne LaBastille's books about women in the wilderness. Anyone have any other authors with this type of story ??

[country bred]

This isn't quite the same thing, but I'm reading Out of Africa by Isak Dinesen. Dinesen went to Kenya in 1913 to run a coffee plantation. The book is about her impressions of the country and her interactions with the natives and with a white big game hunter (Dinesen isn't as explicit about this relationship as Meryl Streep and Robert Redford are in the movie version).

Dinesen observed everything that went on around her, thought about it, and set it all down. Her prose is really lovely.

[Helena]

Oh !!.. Out of Africa... is my favorite book and movie. I just love it !! Makes you want to go start a coffee plantation !!! Think I will read it again this summer !!

[country bred]

"I had a farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills . . . ."