Wheeler puts it, “movement between opposing environments.” He believed that to live fully and well meant travel, or as Ms. His aristocratic ancestors gambled their money away, and Denys was confronted with two choices: become a decadent nobleman in the manner of a Henry James protagonist in search of a rich American heiress, or restore the family fortunes by seeking new worlds to conquer in virgin territories such as Africa, where European powers were slicing apart the continent and setting up their own preserves like so many casinos on the Atlantic City Boardwalk.įinch Hatton decided to pursue the family franchise that is, he continued his forebears’ gamble with existence, ultimately crashing an airplane in Kenya on his way to Nairobi. Denys Finch Hatton (1887-1931) may evoke for millions the visage of Robert Redford, who plays this quintessential British adventurer with an American accent in “Out of Africa.” Finch Hatton, the original, had sherry-colored hair and “topsoil brown eyes,” Sara Wheeler reports in “Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton” (Random House, 320 pages, $27.95).
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