No Picnic on Mount Kenya

No picnic on Mount Kenya

Travel

Benuzzi, Felice

Africa

Kimber

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.

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

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Lyons Pr

No Picnic on Mount Kenya [Hardcover] [Jan 01, 2012] Felice Benuzzi, Rick Ridgeway

History

Military

Quercus

A rediscovered mountaineering classic and t he extraordinary true story of a daring escape up Mount Kenya by three prisoners of war. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, prisoner of war Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea - an outrageous, dangerous, brilliant idea. There are not many people who would break out of a P.O.W. camp, trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meagre rations, and with a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef among their more accurate guides. There are probably fewer still who would break back in to the camp on their return. But this is the remarkable story of three such men. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is a powerful testament to the human spirit of revolt and adventure in even the darkest of places. "The history of mountaineering can hardly present a parallel to this mad but thrilling escapade" - Saturday Review "A most extraordinary prisoner-of-war and escape story" - New Yorker "A mad venture and a gallant tribute to man's deep yearning for freedom" - Kirkus Reviews "The book crackles with the same dry humour as its title . It contains the prison-yard bartering and candlelight stitching that mark a classic jailbreak yarn ; the encounters with wild beasts in Mount Kenya's forest belt are as gripping , and the descriptions of sparkling glaciers as awe-inspiring, as any passage in the great exploration diaries of the early 20th century" - The Economist

No Picnic on Mount Kenya: The Story of Three POWs' Escape to Adventure

MacLehose Press

In No Picnic on Mount Kenya, Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring adventures of this century. In 1943, Benuzzi and two fellow Italian prisoners of war escaped from a British camp in equatorial East Africa with one goal--to climb the seventeen-thousand-foot Mount Kenya. Filled with suspense and humor, it is an extraordinary story that has earned its place as a masterpiece.

Gibbs-Smith

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 seventeen-thousand-foot Mount Kenya. No Picnic on Mount Kenya is the classic tale of this most bizarre and thrilling adventure, a story that has earned its place as a unique masterpiece of daring and suspense.

No Picnic On Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb

In the shadow of Mount Kenya, surrounded by the forests and creatures of the savannah, life drags interminably for the inmates of POW Camp 354, captured in Africa during World War II. Confined to an endless cycle of boredom and frustration, one prisoner realizes he can bear it no longer. When the clouds covering Mount Kenya part one morning to reveal its towering peaks for the first time, Felice Benuzzi is transfixed. The tedium of camp life is broken by the beginnings of a sudden idea--an outrageous, dangerous, brilliantidea. Not many people would break out of a POW camp and trek for days across perilous terrain before climbing the north face of Mount Kenya with improvised equipment, meager rations, and a picture of the mountain on a tin of beef as their most accurate guide. Fewer still would break back into the camp on their return. This is the remarkable story of three such men--a powerful testament to the human spirit of rebellion and adventure--reissued in a deluxe edition featuring Benuzzi's own watercolor paintings of the expedition and a final chapter that has never before appeared in English.

This very interesting 229 page book from The Adventure Library tells the story of the first Europeans to begin exploring the interior of East Africa in the late nineteenth century. "The first European to see the glittering mountain, called 'Kere-Nyaga' - 'Mountain of Brightness' - by the Kikuyu who lived near it, was missionary Dr. Johan Ludwig Krapf on December 3, 1849." They were slow to start but once started they moved with remorseless speed to study and climb Mount Kenya and to gain control of this area of Africa so soon there was a Portuguese East Africa, a German East Africa, a British East Africa, a French Somaliland and an Italian Somaliland. This jostling continued for the next half century until the beginning of World War II when Italy invaded Ethiopia. A man named Felice Benuzzi finds himself incarcerated as a POW in Kenya, thus begins the exciting tale of his escape from prison and his climb of Mount Kenya with two fellow prisoners. The endpapers and paste-down endpapers contain hand-drawn maps of Mt. Kenya showing the trios various camps along the way, the elevation, the vegetation, etc.

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Sports & Outdoors

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