"His mysterious otherness caught my attention," writes Wheeler, having read Dinesen. You'll remember him: He was the ill-fated flier in Dinesen's memoir "Out of Africa," book and film version, and Markham's "West With the Night." That's how Wheeler met him, too. , so his immortalizing was particularly public. Finch Hatton starred in the lives of both Danish author Naturally women - and men - fell for him his chief claim to fame seems to have been how ardently he was loved. Adventurer, speculator, flier and romantic loner, he is painted by Sara Wheeler in her biography of him, "Too Close to the Sun," as a magnetic character, and great friend. On a risky bush hunt, then enjoy the Russian ballet. The dashing, daring scion of an earl, he was the kind of Etonian-Oxfordian who could lead the Denys Finch Hatton was the superstar of 1920s British East Africa.
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