Born Free: The Full Story

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THE THKEE Gli.EAT ELSA THE LIONESS CLASSICS IN ONE VOLUME
'The third cub was the weakling in size, but the pluckiest in spirit. I called her Elsa, because she roitinded nie of someone of that name.'
Forty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised until she was old enough to return the wild. She had, of course, been born free.
Since the first pubhcation of Born Free and its sequels Living Free and Forever Free readers have been enchanted, inspired and motivated by these books' uplifting charm and the remarkable interaction between man and beast they portray.
Millions have also come to know and love Born Free through the immortal film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. But here is the chance to rediscover the original story, in the words of the woman who actually reared Elsa, and walked with the lions.
FEATURES A SUPERB SELECTION OF THE ADAMSONS' ORIGINAL... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE THKEE Gli.EAT ELSA THE LIONESS CLASSICS IN ONE VOLUME
'The third cub was the weakling in size, but the pluckiest in spirit. I called her Elsa, because she roitinded nie of someone of that name.'
Forty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised until she was old enough to return the wild. She had, of course, been born free.
Since the first pubhcation of Born Free and its sequels Living Free and Forever Free readers have been enchanted, inspired and motivated by these books' uplifting charm and the remarkable interaction between man and beast they portray.
Millions have also come to know and love Born Free through the immortal film starring Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers. But here is the chance to rediscover the original story, in the words of the woman who actually reared Elsa, and walked with the lions.
FEATURES A SUPERB SELECTION OF THE ADAMSONS' ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
JOY ADAMSON was a pioneer in the field of conservation. With her husband George, senior game warden in a huge area of the northern frontier province of Kenya, she established one of the world's first wild animal appeals. Now the Elsa Conservation Trust, it operates an education, training and wildlife retreat centre at the Adamsons' former home of Elsamere, on the shores of Lake Naivasha.
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Cover photographs © Estate of Joy Adamson BIOfiRAPHY/NATIIRAI HIRTORY
ISBN 0-330-39190-9
978033039190090100 Vissza