No Picnic on Mount Kenya.

BENUZZI, Felice.

Item Number: 16067

London: William Kimber, 1952.

First edition. Octavo, original cloth. Very good in a very good dust jacket with some chipping to the crown and overall wear.

In No Picnic on Mount Kenya, Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring adventures of the twentieth 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, Africa's second tallest mountain. Filled with suspense and humor, it is an extraordinary story that has earned its place as a masterpiece.