Too Close To The Sun: The Life And Times Of Denys Finch Hatton

Author: Sara Wheeler

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Price : 65.00 NZD
ISBN : 9780224063807
Publisher : Vintage
Imprint : Jonathan Cape Ltd
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Weight (g) : 0.578
Publication date : 01 March 2006
Dimensions : 241mm X 163mm X 27mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton. Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. He was 6 foot 3 inches tall, and once lifted a car out of a ditch unaided. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa. There, in this earthly paradise, he first had an affair with the pantherine aviatrix Beryl Markham, and then - famously - with Karen Blixen. Too Close To The Sun tells the true story of this now legendary love affair, and recreates in telling detail the life of one of the key figures in the mythic story of the British settlers in East Africa. Finch Hatton was a soldier in the East Africa Campaign, a white hunter, a farmer, a pilot, the epitome of the brave pioneer.

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A brilliant new biography by the acclaimed author of Cherry and Terra Incognita

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Sara Wheeler is the author of four previous books. She lives in London.

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