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.

Continues the story of Elsa, the lioness, and her cubs. Includes the death of Elsa and a new life for the cubs in the Serengeti Reserve.

In this book, the author is writing about the people of Kenya and their traditional life as it is lived, where it has not been touched by foreign influence. The author describes the experiences she has had and mention the problems she has observed when different cultures and races meet and live together. The conflicts and difficulties involved are a challenge to all of us, and the author hopes that her narrative and the reproductions of her paintings and photographs may make a small contribution to a better understanding of the efforts which the Kenyans are making in order to play a constructive part in the family of man.

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.

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

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.

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"