No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, a Perilous Climb - Tapa blanda

A new edition of one of National Geographic’s "Greatest Adventure Books of All-Time”--with new illustrations from the author

In 1943, Felice Benuzzi and two Italian compatriots escaped from a British POW camp in equatorial East Africa with only one goal in mind: to climb the dangerous 17,000 foot Mount Kenya that Benuzzi would stare at from inside the camp. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is the classic tale of one of the most bizarre and thrilling adventure stories of the 20th century, a story that has earned its place as a unique masterpiece of daring suspense.

Felice Benuzzi grew up in Trieste, Italy. In 1938 he entered the Colonial Service and began serving abroad, where he was captured and imprisoned in a POW camp at the foot of Mount Kenya. He rejoined the service after the war while continuing to write and travel. He died in 1988.