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Summary: Great Stroy for all ages
Review: This book is one of my favorites. This book tells you the story of a bond between a hunan and a lioness. This is a great book because it shows you a different side of wild animals and the way they live. When you read it, you will get the excitement as if you are along on the safari with them!
Rating:
Summary: Great Stroy for all ages
Review: This book is one of my favorites. This book tells you the story of a bond between a hunan and a lioness. This is a great book because it shows you a different side of wild animals and the way they live. When you read it, you will get the excitement as if you are along on the safari with them!
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Summary: Great story / Awful binding
Review: This has been one of my favorite stories, so I recently purchased it in the hardcover binding from Econo clad Books. Big mistake. The story is as great as ever - but the 'hard cover' binding was so cheap & cheesy that I returned the book. Buy the paperback - it is great! 1 star for the binding / 5 stars for the story
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Summary: A great read for all ages!
Review: This is a wonderful story that crosses all generations. It is a story of triumph and discovery of a species. I would recommend everyone read all of her animal story books. She has contributed a great deal to knowledge of these animals and conservation of wildlife.
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Summary: An excellent story for animal lovers worldwide.
Review: This story about Elsa, the lioness, can inspire anyone to realize
the importance and wonder of all earth's creatures. Joy Adamson
tells it in a way which everyone can understand how the love for a wildcat can be undescribable and can last a lifetime.
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Summary: Born Free - Well worth reading!
Review: When I was a child, Born Free had been recently published and made into a movie. I must have read the book twenty times, and it has had a lifelong impact on me. Joy Adamson captures not only Elsa's story, but the Adamson's love of Africa, the people,the animals, the land itself. Through Born Free I learned of the complex personalities and emotions that animals have, just as we do. I learned that there are many ways to live your life - a job, a family and a suburb are not the only options. Through the difficulty the Adamson's had in finding a suitable wild home for Elsa, that I learned that the world is under tremendous pressure from human expansion, and became conscious of our responsiblity to ensure survival for creatures who cannot speak to defend themselves against our incursions. Born Free is sometimes treated as a children's book - as though that were some reflection of diminished quality. But the ideas and values I absorbed as a girl from Joy and George Adamson, from Elsa and her cubs, were complex and important -- they have been with me my whole life. And I would bet that dozens of notable careers in wildlife preservation, ecological studies, veterinary medicine and zoology, were inspired by a visit to the movies one afternoon to see the story of Elsa, or by a dogeared library copy of Born Free with it's bright yellow jacket. This is a wonderful, captivating book, which can be read for simple enjoyment. But I also hope that it touches people as deeply it touched me, and engenders some interest and concern -- if not active help -- for the tremendous difficulties the people and wildlife of Africa are facing today.
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