Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton (P. 9780099450276
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Too Close to the Sun (1931)
ISBN: 9780099450276 bzw. 0099450275, in Englisch, Vintage, neu.
Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover - 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 - still then the land of the pioneer. There, concluded his obituary in The Times, `No one who ever met him, whether man or woman, old or young, white or black, failed to come under his spell ... He was different from everyone else. He always left an impression of greatness - there is no other word - and aroused interest as no one else could.`Too Close to the Sun` is a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, a famous divorce case, a Welsh castle and a Gilbertine priory, marauding lions, syphilis, bankruptcy, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart. Sara Wheeler reveals the truth behind Finch Hatton`s love affairs with the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham and with Karen Blixen, the Danish coffee-farmer who famously immortalised their romance in her memoir Out of Africa. Wheeler tracks her quarry from a dreamlike Edwardian childhood in a Lincolnshire mansion through to the purgatorial battlefields of the East Africa Campaign - one of the last remaining untold stories of the First World War. As with her biography of Apsley Cherry-Garrard, she uses a biography to illuminate a generation.An elusive hero in the mythic story of the British settlers in East Africa, Finch Hatton was the open road made flesh. He crashed his Gypsy Moth into the Voi hills in 1931, dying `as he would have chosen in the open air, amid the wide spaces that he loved, fearless and free to the end`. 13x20cm.
Too Close To The Sun
ISBN: 9780099450276 bzw. 0099450275, in Englisch, Random House, neu, E-Book.
History, 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'. eBook.
Too Close To The Sun (1910)
ISBN: 9780099450276 bzw. 0099450275, vermutlich in Englisch, Vintage Publishing, Taschenbuch, neu.
Too Close to the Sun, The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton (2006)
ISBN: 9780099450276 bzw. 0099450275, in Englisch, Vintage Publishing, Taschenbuch, neu.
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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'.Taal: Engels;Afmetingen: 19x198x129 mm;Gewicht: 241,00 gram;Verschijningsdatum: december 2006;ISBN10: 0099450275;ISBN13: 9780099450276; Engelstalig | Paperback | 2006.
Too Close To The Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton
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Paperback / softback. New. 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.
Sara Wheeler - Too Close To The Sun (Paperback) 9780099450276
ISBN: 9780099450276 bzw. 0099450275, in Englisch, Century Hutchinson; Random Century; Random House, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Taschenbuch, neu.
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Too Close to the Sun by Wheeler Sara
ISBN: 9780099450276 bzw. 0099450275, in Englisch, Century Hutchinson; Random Century; Random House, Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, neu.
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