A brilliant new biography by the acclaimed author of CHERRY and TERRA INCOGNITA. 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. There he first had an affair with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham, and then - 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.'TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN is a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, marauding lions, syphilis, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart. Sara Wheeler tracks her quarry from a dreamlike Edwardian childhood in a Lincolnshire mansion through to the battlefields of the East African campaign - one of the last remaining untold stories of the First World War. An elusive hero in the mythic story of the British settlers in East Africa, Finch Hatton was the open road made flesh, and Wheeler uses his biography to illuminate a generation.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13
9780099450276
eBay Product ID (ePID)
92173750
Product Key Features
Book Title
Too Close to the Sun: the Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Author
Sara Wheeler
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2007
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
304 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
236g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Sara Wheeler
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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