Born Free
Joy Adamson, 1960
A lioness raised by hand, then taught to hunt and live wild: the true story that changed how people looked at animals.
Joy Adamson
Joy Adamson was born in Austria-Hungary and moved to Kenya in 1938; she was an artist and illustrator before she became famous as a naturalist.
Feels like wonder, freedom and tenderness.
The astonishing thing is not that she could kill him, but that she didn't.
To whatever way of thinking the reader of Elsa’s history may lean, it provides a record of absorbing interest depicting the gradual development of a controlled character which few would have credited as possible in the case of an animal potentially as dangerous as any in the world. That such a creature when in a highly excited state, with her blood up after a long struggle with a bull buffalo, and while still on top of it, should have permitted a man to walk up to her and cut the dying beast’s throat to satisfy his religious scruples, and then lend her assistance in pulling the carcass out of a river, is an astonishing tribute no less to her intelligence than to her self-control. Books by Joy Adamson
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