Too Close To The Sun

Wheeler, Sara

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Sara Wheeler recreates the life of one of the key figures in the mythic story of British settlers in East Africa. Finch Hatton was a soldier, a white hunter, a farmer, a pilot, the epitome of the brave pioneer who according to the Times ‘always left an impression of greatness’.

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Publish Date: 01/03/2007
ISBN: 9780099450276 Category: Tags: ,

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Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover – Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa – still then the land of the pioneer. Sara Wheeler reveals the truth behind his love affairs with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham, and – famously – with Karen Blixen, a romance immortalised in her memoir Out of Africa.

‘No one who ever met him’, his Times obituary concluded, ‘whether man or woman, old or young, white or black, failed to come under his spell’.

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Weight 236 g
Dimensions 198 × 129 × 19 mm
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Cover

Paperback

Pages

284

Language

English

Edition
Dewey

967.603092 (edition:22)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K