Back from Africa |  | Author: Corinne Hofmann
Publisher: Arcadia Books
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 261,758
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 172
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9
ISBN: 1905147325
Dewey Decimal Number: 306.87432092
EAN: 9781905147328
ASIN: 1905147325
Publication Date: April 1, 2009
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After enthralling readers around the world with her incredible story of falling in love with and marrying the Masai warrior Lketinga—and living with his family and their daughter in Kenya—Corinne Hoffmann recounts her return to Switzerland and the difficulties she faced. This frank and revealing memoir details how she built a new life for herself and her daughter while overcoming all obstacles with the same courage and optimism she employed in her life in the Kenyan outback. Once again, Hoffmann proves herself to be an acute observer and an effective storyteller, and her astonishing and compelling tale will captivate fans new and old.
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 Back From Africa book June 21, 2010
Sally J. Hytrek
good service and book was in excellent condition--and the book itself was a great story.
Back from Africa June 1, 2009
Carolina Girl (North Carolina)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I love Corinne Hofmann's books, but I recommend they be read in sequence. (1)White Masai, (2)Back from Africa,(3)Return to Barsaloi. Back from Africa has a poor translator, but it is worth working through that for the story line. I found them so spell binding that I couldn't put them down although I couldn't imagine myself risking what she did for the journey. She is an incredible woman.
A True Account June 8, 2009
C. Andrus (Pt. Huron, MI United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Corinne Hoffmann does an excellent job in Back From Africa relating what it was like getting back into the main stream of civilization upon returning to live in Switzerland from her years of living in Kenya, East Africa. She tells about victories celebrated and the roadblocks that she ran into during the years that she spent making a new life for herself and her daughter. Life was quite different in Kenya compared to living in Switzerland. No matter what Corinne faced upon her return, she never gave up.
Back From Africa June 28, 2009
Joan C. Adams
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
A quick, easy read and her story is so weird I just had to find out what happened next. Ms. Hoffman is without a doubt a born entrepreneur and seems able to make a profit at whatever she attempts. She does seem to lack much empathy for others and is a real represntative of the Me First generaton. That, of course. does make the book any less intriguing - it's like going to the freak show at a circus.
 Back from Africa review July 31, 2009
Kundry (midwest, U.S.A.)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
This is evidently the last of Corinne Hofmann's accounts about her experiences in Kenya with the Samburu ( less domesticated cousins of the Masaii). I read White Masaii, the first book, and was very interested in Hofmann's emotions and amazing ways of fitting in with the Samburu in such a primitive environment. And then, I wanted to know how it was to bring her half Samburu daughter back to Switzerland. And she goes back years later for a reunion with her husband and family in Kenya. Interjected into the narrative of Hofmann's own experiences are tidbits of how the Samburu live- male, female, children and animals. We learn how difficult it is to travel even short distances, how to get imported goods, what the hospital is like, many amazing accounts of life in rural Kenya. Hofmann's writing is pretty simple (could be the translation) but, still, where else would you find out about these things? In fact, I couldn't wait to read the other 2 books after reading White Masaii,which, evidently, has been made into a film.
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