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Presents a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, marauding lions, syphilis, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart. The author tracks her quarry from a dreamlike Edwardian childhood in a Lincolnshire mansion through to the battlefields of the East African campaign.
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Too Close to the Sun, Sara Wheeler
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- Released
- 2007
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- Title
- Too Close to the Sun
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sara Wheeler
- Publisher
- Random House
- Released
- 2007
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN10
- 0099450275
- ISBN13
- 9780099450276
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Maps & Travel, True Stories, Biographies, History, Travel, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Africa, Kenya
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Presents a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, marauding lions, syphilis, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart. The author tracks her quarry from a dreamlike Edwardian childhood in a Lincolnshire mansion through to the battlefields of the East African campaign.