Karen blixen and denys finch hatton photos

Ninety years ago, the most famous dandy in the history of British Africa died in Kenya when his plane crashed with his loyal servant Kamau. His name was Denys Finch Hatton and, made famous by Karen Blixen's famous novel 'My Africa', he looks like the actor Robert Redford in the collective imagination.
In reality, Finch Hatton was not so charming, but his aura of womanizer and eternal dreamer, a bit rough like all hunters but unusually elegant and refined, in eating and drinking as well as in his appreciation of opera music, for example, certainly made him a unique character who, not by chance, made two brilliant, albeit problematic, women fall in love with him.

In addition to the writer Isak Dinesen, Baroness Von Blixen, there was also the intellectual and first female airline pilot to fly across the Atlantic, Beryl Marckham.
Finch Hatton was born in into a noble family in Great Britain, his father Henry being the Earl of Winchilsea.

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