I had a farm in Africa, at the
foot of the Egong Hills.
我在恩贡山下,有一座农场。
《走出非洲》以这样一句话开头。
多年以来一直将这本书放在枕边。每次都从开头读,于是从来也没有把它读完。
I had a
farm in Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.
The Equator runs
across these highlands, a hundred miles to the north, and the farm
lay at an altitude of over six thousand feet. In the day-time you
felt that you had got high up; near to the sun, but the early
mornings and evenings were limpid and restful, and the nights were
cold.
The geographical position and the height of the
land combined to create a landscape that had not its like in all
the