Still, we often talked on the farm of the Safaris that we had been on. Camping places fix themselves in your mind as if you had spent long periods of your life in them. You will remember a curve of your wagon track in the grass of the plain, like the features of a friend.
Isak DinesenAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: danish
- Born: April 17, 1885
- Died: September 7, 1962
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