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Summary: An exciting adventure of a growing lioness.
Review: "Born Free" is about an orphaned lion cub, named Elsa. Elsa grows up with a game warden, his wife, and thier safari crew in northern Kenya, Africa. Joy Adamson,the game warden's wife, mainly raises Elsa herself. The book describes thier strong bond and crazy adventures throughout Elsa's life.This book is very enjoyable to read, and the pictures are a delight to look at. It is exciting to read about Elsa interacting with the other wild animals and then going home at night to a totally different world. This book was extremely hard to put down, and I would recomend it to all animal lovers.
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Summary: Great story / Awful binding
Review: "Roooaarrr!" The ferocious lioness roared like thunder as the tiny bullet pierced through its thick golden hair. After the lioness fell to the rocky ground, a soft, almost scared, whimper rose from the deadly awkward silence. The lioness had had a cub. What should Joy Adamson do? Leave the cub on it's own where it could die easily in one night alone? Joy Ademson, the author of this book, Born Free, opened up a new wild door in my reading. She opened up a door into a room filled with real life problems, adventures, and emotions. This wasn't like any other book I'd read before. It was as if I was there, raising the tiny cub myself. I extremely loved this book. You'll read it in a flash, I did, and I'm not even a good reader. If you are an animal freak, you'll enjoy the little adventures this book fills in your head. Even if you're not an animal freak... well I didn't think I was either, until now.
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Summary: You Will Never Look at a Lion in the Same Way ever Aagin
Review: "Roooaarrr!" The ferocious lioness roared like thunder as the tiny bullet pierced through its thick golden hair. After the lioness fell to the rocky ground, a soft, almost scared, whimper rose from the deadly awkward silence. The lioness had had a cub. What should Joy Adamson do? Leave the cub on it's own where it could die easily in one night alone? Joy Ademson, the author of this book, Born Free, opened up a new wild door in my reading. She opened up a door into a room filled with real life problems, adventures, and emotions. This wasn't like any other book I'd read before. It was as if I was there, raising the tiny cub myself. I extremely loved this book. You'll read it in a flash, I did, and I'm not even a good reader. If you are an animal freak, you'll enjoy the little adventures this book fills in your head. Even if you're not an animal freak... well I didn't think I was either, until now.
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Summary: An exciting adventure of a growing lioness.
Review: "Born Free" is about an orphaned lion cub, named Elsa. Elsa grows up with a game warden, his wife, and thier safari crew in northern Kenya, Africa. Joy Adamson,the game warden's wife, mainly raises Elsa herself. The book describes thier strong bond and crazy adventures throughout Elsa's life. This book is very enjoyable to read, and the pictures are a delight to look at. It is exciting to read about Elsa interacting with the other wild animals and then going home at night to a totally different world. This book was extremely hard to put down, and I would recomend it to all animal lovers.
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Summary: An Excellent Book - Captivating - Fall in love with Elsa
Review: An excellent, well-written book! Elsa will truly capture your heart. I loved learning about the African land and the challenges of the Adamson's journeys. The pictures throughout the book are great. This book really grabbed my attention and my emotions. Joy Adamson did an excellent job of telling this story. She makes the reader feel like you are there. You will become attached to Elsa--She is amazing and remains forever loyal to the Adamsons. Highly recommended.
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Summary: You'll fall in-love with Elsa
Review: I never wanted to see the movie "Born Free" because animal movies upset me too much. Well, I made the mistake of watching it one night on cable and couldn't stop crying. No joke. I was still crying the next day. It upset me. So I got the book "Born Free," and read it in just two or three days. I felt better after reading the book, because in the movie, Elsa, the lion, being left alone to fend for herself in the wild seemed very cruel to me. I got angry at Joy Adamson. The book shows that Elsa wasn't just thrown out into the wild all of a sudden. It was more gradual. I still felt sorry for Elsa though. I think Elsa should have been sent to the zoo (in Holland I think) with her sisters. She died way too young. Joy was very selfish in keeping Elsa and then forcing her to learn how to live in the wild when she had been so domesticated and pampered as a house pet. She really wasn't thinking of Elsa, only of herself.
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Summary: Elsa: a true classic of the bond between humans and lioness
Review: In the late fifties gifted painter Joy Adamson and her husband game warden George took three female lions cubs into their care (their mother had been killed by mistake). Having three young rambunctious lions around proved a bit too much. And after much heartbreak the Adamsons decided to send Elsa's sisters to a Zoo and keep only her. So Elsa was raised and eventually after several difficulties succesfully rehabilitated back into the wild, but her bond with the Adamsons wasn't broken. This is truly a classic book of friendship between humans and animals. Tenderly and delightfully written. I loved Elsa's interactions with the Adamsons and other animals. She's a very convincing ambassador for love between the species. And the many picures are endearing and indeed a delight to behold. The sequels Living free and Forever free show us how Elsa and her cubs got further on, and I loved them just as much. As for the Adamsons their experiences with Elsa would lead them to a life of rehabiliating the big cats back into the wild.
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Summary: "I normally read Stephen King and I LOVED this series&Elsa
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Summary: A Powerful, Moving Story of Elsa
Review: My first introduction to the Born Free books when I was a child learning to read in school. And what a great introduction to reading it was. The story of Elsa and the Adamsons who saved her life as a cub along with her sisters and raised her brought me into a world of wanting to be there with all the animals and see Africa. This seemed to be treated more as a children's book in my time than an adult book. The idea of the book was to teach people the importance of environmental conservation awareness. The first book, tells Elsa's early life from a cub raised by Joy and George Adamson and their pet rock hyrax, Pati. Joy is Elsa's surrogate mom and with great pains to teach Elsa the skills to survive in the wild. With lots of work Joy did it with success that Elsa was capable of living in the wild again. They released her near her birthplace and hoping Elsa would find and connect with her pride-in which she did. There is the tragedy not long afterward I had read this amazing story that Elsa had died in the Kenya bush of disease. Something of life that I learned early in my life that it was reality in the wilds of Africa or anywhere for that matter. But the cycle of life lives on in Elsa's pride. Still another grim incident ended the lives of Joy and George Adamson. Both were found murdered.
Joy Adamson has left behind a legacy of these fascinating books that moves us to treat our world with respect and have a better understanding between human-animal relationship. Joy Adamson before her death had also written, 'Living Free: Elsa and her Cubs' and 'Forever Free: Elsa's Pride.' Her family extended even further across the grasslands of Africa as she tells about them in her other books, 'The Spotted Sphinx' (about Pippa the Cheetah), 'Pippa's Challenge,' 'Pippa: The Cheetah and her Cubs,' 'Queen of Shaba: The Story of an African Leopard,' and 'Friends of the Forest.' Joy Adamson's book 'Peoples of Kenya' reflects upon the life of the Kenyan people, her concern for the people welfare there and their struggles to make an existence in a harsh, beautiful land. If you want to know more about Joy Adamson read her autobiography, 'The Searching Spirit.'
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Summary: The entire series by Joy is a delight to read
Review: The stories in this book as well living free and forever free will captivate any reader and make you laugh and cry as if you were there....
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