Most Popular Books by Joy Adamson

Fifty 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 at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had been born free, Joy made the heartbreaking decision that she must be returned to the wild when she was old enough to fend for herself. Since the first publication of Born Free and its sequels Living Free and Forever Free, generations of readers have been enchanted, inspired and moved by these books’ uplifting charm and the remarkable interaction between Joy and Elsa. 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 this 50th anniversary edition, in the words of the woman who reared Elsa and walked with the lions.

Story of the unique relationship of a wild animal with its human friends.

Brief text and photographs trace the adaptation of a tame cheetah to life in the wild.

The condensed story of the lioness Elsa and her cubs, which was previously published as three volumes.

Joy Adamson''s life with Penny, a female leopad, who was released into a wildlife reserve at maturity, with 85 photographs taken by the author.

Describes the family lives, behavior, attachments, and tragedies of the rare Colobus monkeys and Verreaux''s eagle owls which lived on the grounds of Mrs. Adamson''s Kenyan home.

Kenyas folkeslag med beskrivelser af deres skikke og mange fotos og tegninger af dragter og kropsudsmykninger.

The author''s observations and study of the cheetah.

La historia de Joy Adamson sobre un cachorro de leona en transición entre el cautiverio en el que se cría y la temible vida salvaje a la que regresa captura las habilidades tanto de los humanos como de los animales para cruzar la brecha aparentemente insuperable entre dos mundos radicalmente diferentes. Especialmente ahora, en un momento en que la santidad de la naturaleza y sus habitantes se ve cada vez más amenazada por el desarrollo humano y el desastre natural, el extraordinario relato de Adamson es un idilio al que volver una y otra vez. Ilustrado con las mismas hermosas y evocadoras fotografías que encantaron al mundo hace 50 años y con una nueva introducción de George Page, ex presentador y editor ejecutivo de la serie de PBS "Nature" y autor de" Inside the Animal Mind"

Joy Adamson was a pioneer for the preservation of wildlife, and a courageous individual who learned to adapt herself to live in different countries, learn different traditions and languages and she developed her unique personality. She wrote Born Free about Elsa the lioness which she cared for before releasing her back into the wild.

After raising Elsa, the orphaned lion cub, to maturity and training her to return to the wild, as described in Born Free, and helping the lioness train her own three cubs, which she describes in Living Free, Joy Adamson here completes the story of Elsa. She tells of the lioness''s death in George Adamson''s tent, and hoe they captured the three cubs, whose lives were endangered, and released them into th Serengeti Park to start a new life as creatures of the wild. Forever Free is the story of a tense fight against time and a riveting conclusion to the story of the world''s best known family of lions.