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Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

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Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton - Wheeler, Sara
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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 ...

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Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton 2007, Vintage, London

ISBN-13: 9780099450276

Mass-market paperback