# Too Close To The Sun

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- Book: [Too Close To The Sun](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-wheeler/too-close-to-the-sun) ([Too Close To The Sun.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-wheeler/too-close-to-the-sun.md))
- Authors: [Sara Wheeler](https://www.bookquiver.com/sara-wheeler)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-00-9945-027-6
- Pages: 304
- Published: 2007-03-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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'.