Too Close to the Sun (25 page)

Toby, Ossie and Denys. Denys always dressed in a hurry.

Toby and Denys

“As for charm, I suspect Denys invented it.”

The Mara Triangle. “He had seen what men with imagination cannot help seeing in a dream country like Africa.”

Nine hundred fifty-three elephants

Denys (second from left) with Rose and Algy Cartwright at Lake Naivasha

Nairobi in the 1920s

Denys with buffalo, on safari near Lake Jipe with a client, 1927

Denys, Jack Pixley, and Tich Miles with Lady Colville in 1914

Cole’s Scouts watering close to the border between British and German East Africa, January 1915

Denys, serving in Cole’s Scouts in the First World War. He is interrogating an askari suspected of spying for the Germans.

Two of the Three Musketeers: Berkeley Cole and Tich Miles, serving in Cole’s Scouts in 1915

Tania (Karen Blixen) with Dawn and Dusk

Tania, photographed in Denmark before departing for Africa�and marriage