6/29/2023 0 Comments Forever Free by Joy Adamson![]() Born Free received largely favorable reviews from critics. ![]() Subsequent books were also heavily illustrated. Readers had pictures of many of the events of Elsa's life leading up to her release. The success of the book was due to both the story of Elsa and the dozens of photographs of her. ![]() Published in 1960, it became a bestseller, spending 13 weeks at the top of The New York Times Best Seller list and nearly a year on the chart overall. She submitted it to a number of publishers before it was bought by Harvill Press, part of HarperCollins. Using her own notes and George's journals, Joy wrote Born Free to tell the lion's tale. ![]() The two largest cubs, named "Big One" and "Lustica", were passed on to be cared for by a zoo in Rotterdam, and the smallest, "Elsa", was raised by the couple. Taking them home, Joy and George found it difficult to care for all the cubs' needs. George later realized the lioness was just protecting her cubs, which were found nearby in a rocky crevice. In 1956, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden. ![]() Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. Signed on the title pages by Joy Adamson. Numerous black and white and coloured ills. Very good illustrated cloth covers in very good slightly chipped pictorial dust jacket. London, Collins and Harvills Press, 1962. ![]()
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