This is the biography of Denys Finch Hatton, the personage immortalized by Robert Redford's portrayal of him in the Oscar-winning movie "Out of Africa". From an aristocratic family, educated at Eton and Oxford, Finch served in the infantry and then survived the ordeal of being a pilot in World War I. After the war he went to Kenya to organize big game hunting, where he was put in charge of the Prince of Wales' safaris in 1928 and 1930. In Africa he met Karen Blixen with the Ngong hills around Karen's farm forming the backdrop to a moving love story.