Born Free by Joy Adamson

Born Free by Joy Adamson

There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when the New York Times hailed it as a fascinating and remarkable book, Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.

Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increasingly threatened by human development and natural disaster, Adamson's remarkable tale is an idyll, and a model, to return to again and again.

Illustrated with the same beautiful, evocative photographs that first enchanted the world forty years ago and updated with a new introduction by George Page, former host and executive editor of the PBS series Nature and author of Inside the Animal Mind, this anniversary edition introduces to a new generation one of the most heartwarming associations between man and animal.

JOY ADAMSON was born in 1910 in Austria and received her education in Vienna. She travelled to Kenya to visit friends when she was twenty-six years old and stayed there until her death in 1980. She was a well-known painter and photographer who was commissioned by the Kenyan government to paint portraits of African tribesmen and photograph the indigenous flora of East Africa, for which she was awarded the Royal Horticultural Society's Grenfell Gold Medal. She was the author of two further novels, Living Free and Forever Free, in addition to launching the Elsa Wild Animal Appeal, which was dedicated to the protection of wildlife. George Adamson, the Senior Game Warden of Kenya's Northern Frontier Province, was her husband.

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ISBN 13	9780375714382
ISBN 10	0375714383
Title	Born Free
Author	Joy Adamson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-05-16
Number of pages	224
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