Felice Benuzzi

No Picnic on Mount Kenya

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Eighty years since Felice Benuzzi's incredible escape, discover a classic tale of derring-do: The Great Escape meets Touching the Void

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Quercus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 195mm x 128mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 294g
• ISBN-13: 9780857053770
• ISBN-10: 0857053779
• Artikelnr.: 45654676

Autorenporträt

Felice Benuzzi was born in Vienna in 1910 and grew up in Trieste, doing his early mountaineering in the Julian Alps. He studied law at the University of Rome and represented Italy as an international swimmer in 1933-35. He served in the Italian Colonial Service in Abyssinia until his imprisonment in 1941, and wrote both the English and Italian versions of No Picnic on Mount Kenya during the last years of his captivity. Following the conclusion of the war he worked as a diplomat, including with the United Nations. He died in Rome in 1988.