Author: Joy AdamsonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Joy Adamson - The Searching Spirit
Author: Joy AdamsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9781906393250
Category : Zoologists
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Joy Adamson was a pioneer for the preservation of wildlife, and a courageous individual who learned to adapt herself to live in different countries, learn different traditions and languages and she developed her unique personality. She wrote Born Free about Elsa the lioness which she cared for before releasing her back into the wild.
Born Wild
Author: Tony FitzjohnPublisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307716058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Tony Fitzjohn, part missionary, part madman, has been called “one of the world’s most endangered creatures.” An internationally renowned field expert on African wildlife, he is best known for the eighteen years he spent helping Born Free’s George Adamson return more than forty leopards and lions—including the celebrated Christian—to the wild in central Kenya. Born Wild is the memoir of Fitzjohn’s extraordinary life. It shows how a man driven by an impossibly restless spirit can do almost anything, from being a bouncer in a brothel, to surviving a vicious lion attack, to fighting with the Tanzanian government, to being appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire by the Queen. A notorious hell-raiser given to scrapes with bandits, evil policemen, and wicked politicians, who has been shot at by poachers and chewed up by lions, Fitzjohn is also a wonderful raconteur. Shenanigans aside, he belongs to that rare species of humans who have sought refuge and meaning in a life truly dedicated to the restoration of the animal kingdom. Many times Tony Fitzjohn has put his life on the line for the cause in which he believes. Born Wild is the story of that passion.
Author: Joy Adamson
Author: Joy Adamson
Author: Joy AdamsonFriends from the Forest
Author: Joy AdamsonPublisher: 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.
Author: Joy AdamsonThe Forest Lover
Author: Susan VreelandPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101200790
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
In her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling as their artistic subjects. Now, in The Forest Lover, she traces the courageous life and career of Emily Carr, who—more than Georgia O'Keeffe or Frida Kahlo—blazed a path for modern women artists. Overcoming the confines of Victorian culture, Carr became a major force in modern art by capturing an untamed British Columbia and its indigenous peoples just before industrialization changed them forever. From illegal potlatches in tribal communities to artists' studios in pre-World War I Paris, Vreeland tells her story with gusto and suspense, giving us a glorious novel that will appeal to lovers of art, native cultures, and lush historical fiction.
Born Free
Author: Joy AdamsonPublisher: 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.
