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Joy Adamson

    January 20, 1910 – January 3, 1980
    Joy Adamson
    Born Free
    Die Löwin Elsa und ihre Jungen. Für immer frei
    Living Free
    Joy Adamson - The Searching Spirit
    Queen of Shaba
    Born free : the story of Elsa
    • 2022

      A gripping new thriller with a killer twist! Two bodies. Thirty years. And a secret that connects them both... 1990 A woman's body is found brutally murdered in the woods, and next to it, a shallow grave hiding a terrified young girl. 2021 When Mia and Rich move to an eco-village in Spain, they're looking for a new start. Val Verde is everything they wished for - at least to begin with. But when someone is murdered in an olive grove, Mia realises the village isn't the safe haven she was hoping for... There's a killer in the village - and they'll stop at nothing until they get revenge...

      Murder Grove
    • 2021
    • 2018

      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.

      Joy Adamson - The Searching Spirit
    • 2016

      Born free : the story of Elsa

      • 480 pages
      • 17 hours of reading
      4.4(15)Add rating

      Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. In 1961, 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 generations of readers have been enchanted, inspired and moved by its uplifting charm and the remarkable interaction between Joy and Elsa. Rediscover the original story, in the words of the woman who reared Elsa and walked with the lions, in this new edition, with an introduction by John Rendall.

      Born free : the story of Elsa
    • 2010

      Born Free. The Full Story

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      3.9(15)Add rating

      The fiftieth anniversary edition of the bestselling international story about Elsa the lioness and her caretaker.

      Born Free. The Full Story
    • 2000

      Born Free

      • 432 pages
      • 16 hours of reading
      4.2(32710)Add rating

      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.

      Born Free
    • 1990

      Forever Free

      • 192 pages
      • 7 hours of reading

      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.

      Forever Free
    • 1980
    • 1969