The Flame Trees of Thika
by Elspeth Huxley | 
The Mottled Lizard
by Elspeth Huxley | 
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
by Alexandra Fuller | 
The Dark Child
by Camara Laye | 
Out In The Midday Sun
by Elspeth Huxley | 
West with the Night
by Beryl Markham | 
Facing the Lion
by Joseph Lemasolai Lekuton | 
The White Masai
by Corinne Hofmann |
Dreams in a Time of War
by Ngugi wa'Thiong'o | 
The Invention of Solitude
by Paul Auster | 
Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight
by Alexandra Fuller | 
African Laughter
by Doris Lessing | 
Cider with Rosie
by Laurie Lee |
Reunion in Barsaloi
by Corinne Hofmann | 
Black Boy
by Richard Wright | 
Kon-Tiki
by Thor Heyerdahl | 
Sailing Alone Around the World
by Joshua Slocum |
Cabeza de Vaca's Adventures in the Unknown Interior of America
by Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca | 
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
by Harriet Jacobs | 
Travels with Charley
by John Steinbeck |
Out of Africa is Isak Dinesen's memoir of her years in Africa, from 1914 to 1931, on a four-thousand-acre coffee plantation in the hills near Nairobi. She had come to Kenya from Denmark with her husband, and when they separated she stayed on to manage the farm by herself, visited frequently by her lover, the big-game hunter Denys Finch-Hatton, for whom she would make up stories "like Scheherazade." In Africa, "I learned how to tell tales," she recalled many years later. "The natives have an ear still. I told stories constantly to them, all kinds." Her account of her African adventures, written after she had lost her beloved farm and returned to Denmark, is that of a master storyteller, a woman whom John Updike called "one of the most picturesque and flamboyant literary personalities of the century."