Description
Product ID: | 9780099450276 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Too Close To The Sun |
Subtitle: | The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton |
Authors: | Author: Sara Wheeler |
Page Count: | 304 |
Subjects: | Biography: historical, political and military, Biography: historical, political & military, East Africa |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. 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. 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. |
Imprint Name: | Vintage |
Publisher Name: | Vintage Publishing |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2007-03-01 |