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TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN – WHEELER

Author: Sara Wheeler
SKU: 9780099450276

Kshs 2,300.00

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’.

 

Format: Paperback / softback 304 pages

Classifications: Classifications:

East Africa, Biography: historical, political & military

ISBN : 9780099450276

Published : 1 Mar 2007

Author : Sara Wheeler

Main Material : Paperback softback

Publisher : Vintage Publishing

Size : 140 x 136 x 20 (mm)

Weight : 240g

4 in stock

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