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

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A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to jot down the unforgettable Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.

Born to an old aristocratic circle of relatives that had gambled away most of its fortune, Finch Hatton grew up in a world of effortless elegance and boundless power. In 1910, in search of something new, he arrived in British East Africa and fell in love–with a continent, with a landscape, with a lifestyle that was once about to modify perpetually. In Nairobi, Finch Hatton met Karen Blixen and embarked on one of the vital great love affairs of the twentieth century. Intellectual equals, Finch Hatton and Blixen were genuine pioneers in a land that was once quickly being transformed by violence, greed, and bigotry. Ever restless, Finch Hatton wandered into a career as a large-game hunter and become an expert bush pilot. Mesmerized all his life by the allure of freedom and danger, Finch Hatton was once, writes Wheeler, “the open road made flesh.”

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