Anthony Burgess, in a review in The Observer Review, September 6, 1981, p. 29

Marshall S Clough, Fighting Two Sides Kenyan Chiefs and Politicians, 1918-1940, University Press of Colorado, 1990.

Hassoldt Davis, in a review in Saturday Review of Literature, March 5, 1938

Donald Hannah, "Isak Dinesen" and Karen Blixen- The Mask and the Reality, Putnam, 1971.

Janet Lewis, "Isak Dinesen: An Appreciation," in The Southern Review,Vol. 2, No. 2, March, 1966, pp. 297-314.

Sidome Smith, "The Other Woman and the Racial Politics of Gender: Isak Dinesen and Beryl Markham in Kenya," in De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography, edited by Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson, University of Minnesota Press, 1992, pp. 410-35.

Katherine Woods, "Isak Dinesen's Fine Record of Life on an Afhca Farm," in The New York Times Book Review, May 6, 1938, p 3.