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Item specifics

Condition
Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ...
Publication Date
2007-07-16
Pages
292
ISBN
9781400060696
Book Title
Too Close to the Sun : the Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Item Length
9.4 in
Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
Publication Year
2007
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Yes
Item Height
1.1 in
Author
Sara Wheeler
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Topic
General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Africa / East
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
20 oz
Number of Pages
320 Pages

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Denys Finch Hatton was adored by women and idolized by men. A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable stories in "Out of Africa," Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer. Born to an old aristocratic family that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. Tall and graceful, with the soul of a poet and an athlete's relaxed masculinity, he became a hero without trying at Eton and Oxford. In 1910, searching for novelty and danger, Finch Hatton arrived in British East Africa and fell in love- with a continent, with a landscape, with a way of life that was about to change forever. Wheeler brilliantly conjures the mystical beauty of Kenya at a time when teeming herds of wild animals roamed unmolested across pristine savannah. No one was more deeply attuned to this beauty than Finch Hatton- and no one more bitterly mourned its passing when the outbreak of World War I engulfed the region in a protracted, bloody guerrilla conflict. Finch Hatton was serving as a captain in the Allied forces when he met Karen Blixen in Nairobi and embarked on one of the great love affairs of the twentieth century. With delicacy and grace, Wheeler teases out truth from fiction in the liaison that Blixen herself immortalized in "Out of Africa," Intellectual equals, bound by their love for the continent and their inimitable sense of style, Finch Hatton and Blixen were genuine pioneers in a land that was quickly beingtransformed by violence, greed, and bigotry. Ever restless, Finch Hatton wandered into a career as a big-game hunter and became an expert bush pilot; his passion that led to his affair with the notoriously unconventional aviatrix Beryl Markham. But Markham was no more able to hold him than Blixen had been. Mesmerized all his life by the allure of freedom and danger, Finch Hatton was, writes Wheeler, " the open road made flesh." In painting a portrait of an irresistible man, Sara Wheeler has beautifully captured the heady glamour of the vanished paradise of colonial East Africa. In "Too Close to the Sun" she has crafted a book that is as ravishing as its subject.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Random House Publishing Group
ISBN-10
1400060699
ISBN-13
9781400060696
eBay Product ID (ePID)
57002437

Product Key Features

Book Title
Too Close to the Sun : the Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
Author
Sara Wheeler
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Customs & Traditions, Africa / East
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Number of Pages
320 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
9.4 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Item Weight
20 oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Dt365.75.F56w44 2007
Reviews
"What is it about these untamable men that makes them so alluring? . . . In Finch Hatton, [Sara] Wheeler has found the archetypal wanderer forced to straddle multiple worlds. He embodies the contradictions of the early modern age and, in some ways still, of ours."-New York Times Book Review "A fascinating portrait of . . . a singularly romantic life."-Vogue "Highly recommended . . . Wheeler's striking descriptions of East Africa, including Kenya and the Rift Valley, create a rich sense of place and time."-Library Journal "Wheeler's fascinating, witty bio reveals her wonderful eye for telling details."-Entertainment Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition., "What is it about these untamable men that makes them so alluring? . . . In Finch Hatton, [Sara] Wheeler has found the archetypal wanderer forced to straddle multiple worlds. He embodies the contradictions of the early modern age and, in some ways still, of ours." New York Times Book Review "A fascinating portrait of . . . a singularly romantic life." Vogue "Highly recommended . . . Wheeler's striking descriptions of East Africa, including Kenya and the Rift Valley, create a rich sense of place and time." Library Journal "Wheeler's fascinating, witty bio reveals her wonderful eye for telling details." Entertainment Weekly From the Trade Paperback edition.
Copyright Date
2007
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2006-048349
Dewey Decimal
9676030092 B
Dewey Edition
22

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    Interesting book. Like to read about adventurous people

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  • by art
    Dec 06, 2009

    Biography of the English big-game hunter and bush pilot

    Biography of the English big-game hunter and bush pilot who, after his accidental death in 1931, was immortalized by his lover Karen Blixen (a.k.a. Isak Dinesen) in her book "Out of Africa" and also by Beryl Markham in her memoir 'West with the Night"

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