Too Close To The Sun

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<p>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<i>Out of Africa</i>.</p><p>'No one who ever met him', his<i>Times</i>obituary concluded, 'whether man or woman, old or young, white or black, failed to come under his spell'.</p>

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

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