Author: Joy Adamson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Joy Adamson's Africa
Author: Joy Adamson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Peoples of Kenya
Born Free
Author: Joy Adamson
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
ISBN: 9781909621480
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
ISBN: 9781909621480
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
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.
Friends from the Forest
Author: Joy Adamson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Describes the family lives, behavior, attachments, and tragedies of the rare Colobus monkeys and Verreaux's eagle owls which lived on the grounds of Mrs. Adamson's Kenyan home.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
Describes the family lives, behavior, attachments, and tragedies of the rare Colobus monkeys and Verreaux's eagle owls which lived on the grounds of Mrs. Adamson's Kenyan home.
A Lion Called Christian
Author: Anthony Bourke
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767932331
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stirring tale of a rare bond formed between humans and an animal.”—Time Two men. One baby lion. What could go wrong? A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought a boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—fast—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert care of the “father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions. A video of this reunion has become a YouTube classic. Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is destined to become one of the great classics of animal literature.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0767932331
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A stirring tale of a rare bond formed between humans and an animal.”—Time Two men. One baby lion. What could go wrong? A Lion Called Christian tells the remarkable story of how Anthony “Ace” Bourke and John Rendall, visitors to London from Australia in 1969, bought a boisterous lion cub in the pet department of Harrods. For several months, the three of them shared a flat above a furniture shop on London’s King’s Road, where the charismatic and intelligent Christian quickly became a local celebrity, cruising the streets in the back of a Bentley, popping in for lunch at a local restaurant, even posing for a fashion advertisement. But the lion cub was growing up—fast—and soon even the walled church garden where he went for exercise wasn’t large enough for him. How could Ace and John avoid having to send Christian to a zoo for the rest of his life? A coincidental meeting with English actors Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of the hit film Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under the expert care of the “father of lions” George Adamson. Incredibly, when Ace and John returned to Kenya to see Christian a year later, they received a loving welcome from their lion, who was by then fully integrated into Africa and a life with other lions. A video of this reunion has become a YouTube classic. Originally published in 1971, and now fully revised and updated with more than 50 photographs of Christian from cuddly cub in London to magnificent lion in Africa, A Lion Called Christian is a touching and uplifting true story of an indelible human-animal bond. It is destined to become one of the great classics of animal literature.
Elsa
Author: Joy Adamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The true story of Elsa, a lioness raised as a pet and later set free.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animal behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The true story of Elsa, a lioness raised as a pet and later set free.
Born Wild
Author: Tony Fitzjohn
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959525
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Born Wild is a story of passion, adventure and skulduggery on the frontline of African conservation. Following Tony Fitzjohn's journey from London bad boy to African wildlife warrior, the heart of the story is a series of love affairs with the world's most beautiful and endangered creatures - affairs that so often end in pain, for to succeed in re-introducing a lion or leopard to the wild is to be deprived of their companionship. Tony tells of his twenty years in Kenya with George Adamson of Born Free fame - a time of discovery, isolation and frequent danger living far from civilisation. And when he was prevented from re-introducing any more animals into the wild and made unwelcome in the country he loved, Tony had to start anew in Tanzania.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141959525
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 417
Book Description
Born Wild is a story of passion, adventure and skulduggery on the frontline of African conservation. Following Tony Fitzjohn's journey from London bad boy to African wildlife warrior, the heart of the story is a series of love affairs with the world's most beautiful and endangered creatures - affairs that so often end in pain, for to succeed in re-introducing a lion or leopard to the wild is to be deprived of their companionship. Tony tells of his twenty years in Kenya with George Adamson of Born Free fame - a time of discovery, isolation and frequent danger living far from civilisation. And when he was prevented from re-introducing any more animals into the wild and made unwelcome in the country he loved, Tony had to start anew in Tanzania.
Pippa's Challenge
Author: Joy Adamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The story of Pippa the tame cheetah and her cubs.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The story of Pippa the tame cheetah and her cubs.
Story of Elsa
Wild Heart
Author: Anne E. Neimark
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152013684
Category : Wildlife conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discusses the life and work of the woman best known for relationship with a lion cub, described in her book "Born Free."
Publisher: HMH Books For Young Readers
ISBN: 9780152013684
Category : Wildlife conservationists
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Discusses the life and work of the woman best known for relationship with a lion cub, described in her book "Born Free."