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Cargando... No Picnic on Mount Kenya: A Daring Escape, A Perilous Climb (edición 1946)por Felice Benuzzi
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. An interesting story, well told and well illustrated. ( ) Nel 1943 tre prigionieri di guerra italiani, Felice Benuzzi, Giovanni Balletto e Vincenzo Barsotti evasero dal campo di prigionia britannico a Nanyuki, in Kenya, al solo scopo di scalare il Monte Kenya. Si erano preparati per mesi di nascosto, non avevano carte topografiche e quasi alla cieca attraversarono la foresta equatoriale per giungere ai piedi della montagna. I 3 raggiunsero la vetta:la cima della Punta Lenana (4985 metri) e dopo aver piantato il tricolore si consegnarono alle autorità. Charming little WWII prison escape story about an Italian in a British POW camp in Kenya. The author escapes for 17 days in order to climb Mt Kenya which he can see from his barracks window tempting him. Like Robinson Crusoe he builds mountaineering gear, ice-axes and crampons, from scraps found around the prison, then escapes with two mates and heads for the hills. The writing is funny with a literary bent, while the story is effective since the idea of escaping from "prison" to climb a mountain would strike a chord with many later readers seeking the freedom of the outdoors. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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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, brilliant idea. 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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