[bookshare-discuss] Book Submitted: Living Free
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A book for your validating pleasure. Someone is using the bowling alley
below me, so I suspect I won't be sleeping any time soon.
Smile.
Living Free
By Joy Adamson
Needs a spell check, rest should be good.
From the Book Jacket:
Even more fascinating than the beloved best seller Born Free is this
absorbing story of how Elsa, the world-famous lioness, raised her three cubs
in the African bush with the help of her devoted friends, Joy and George
Adamson.
This stirring story of the cubs' first year of life reveals an unusually
rewarding relationship between animals and humans that dissolves the
barriers between the two worlds. For although the cubs-impish , Jespah,
jealous Gopa, and timid Little Elsa-romp through these pages with carefree
abandon, the adults-the Adamsons and Elsa-must contend with the ever-
present menaces of the wild-charging buffaloes, crocodiles lurking in the
shallows, marauding elephants, hostile lions, and, most treacherous of all,
enraged African poachers out gunning for Elsa's hide. And Elsa herself must
juggle three roles: the cubs' vigilant mother, the Adamsons' touchingly
affectionate friend, and the primitive mate of a wild lion.
Joy Adamson's sensitive appreciation and concern for all living things, and
the remarkably intimate view of Elsa's life with her cubs, give the reader a
rare sense of participation in life in the wild. As Sir Julian Huxley points
out in his introduction, this unique record of an astonishingly personal
relationship between humans and animals makes this book scientifically
significant, as well as an intensely movingrevelation of human experience.
"All in all, Living Free is a remarkable story, as extraordinary as Born
Free, and in many ways more interesting." -Sir Julian Huxley
With 64 pages of superb photographs
Joy Adamson
was born in Vienna and has spent over twenty years in Kenya. As the wife of
the Senior Game Warden of the Northern Frontier District inAfrica she has
explored some of the most inaccessible regions of that vast area. She is
well known as a painter, a skilled photographer, and, since the publication
of Born Free, a best- selling author.
Mrs. Adamson and her husband, George, are currently raising funds to
preserve African wild life in a project called the "Elsa Appeal." This money
will be used to move animals from areas where they may endanger human life
or damage crops or stock, to areas where they can live their natural lives
without interfering with man or his activities. Because Elsa was a lioness
of two worlds, who built a bridge between men and the animal creation, the
fund has been named after her.
Shelley L. Rhodes B.S. Ed, CTVI
and Judson, guiding golden
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Dog ownership is like a rainbow.
Puppies are the joy at one end.
Old dogs are the treasure at the other.
Carolyn Alexander
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