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No Picnic on Mount Kenya

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

Author(s): Felice Benuzzi

Location(s): East Africa, Kenya

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): 1940s

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Felice Benuzzi recounts one of the most bizarre and daring prisoner-of-war and escape adventures of the past century. 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.

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