Too Close to the Sun - The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton

Informationen zum Autor Sara Wheeler’s books include the international bestseller Terra Incognita: Travels in Antarctica , of which the Telegraph reviewer wrote, ‘I do not think there will ever be a better book on the Antarctic.’ The Magnetic North : Notes from the Arctic Circle , was chosen as Book of the Year by Will Self, Michael Palin, A. N. Wilson and others. She has published two biographies of travellers: Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard , and Too Close to the Sun: The Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton , and was immensely relieved to write about women at last in O My America! . She lives in London. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Sara Wheeler, Wheeler Sara
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.03.2007
• EAN: 9780099450276
• ISBN: 978-0-09-945027-6
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 20 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; East Africa, Colonialism & imperialism, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Colonialism and imperialism, Biography: historical, political and military, Hunting or shooting animals and game