From the rear cover
There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when the "New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book," Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.
Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increasingly threatened by human development and natural disaster, Adamson's remarkable tale is an idyll, and a model, to return to again and again. Illustrated with the same beautiful, evocative photographs that first enchanted the world forty years ago and updated with a new introduction by George Page, former host and executive editor of the PBS series "Nature and author of "Inside the Animal Mind, this anniversary edition introduces to a new generation one of the most heartwarming associations between man and animal.
From the jacket flap
There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when the "New York Times hailed it as a "fascinating and remarkable book," Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.
Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increasingly threatened by human development and natural disaster, Adamson's remarkable tale is an idyll, and a model, to return to again and again. Illustrated with the same beautiful, evocative photographs that first enchanted the world forty years ago and updated with a new introduction by George Page, former host and executive editor of the PBS series "Nature and author of "Inside the Animal Mind, this anniversary edition introduces to a new generation one of the most heartwarming associations between man and animal.
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- Title Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds
- Author Joy Adamson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Anniversary
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Pantheon Books, New York
- Date 2000-05-16
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780375714382 / 0375714383
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6.1 x 0.7 in (22.86 x 15.49 x 1.78 cm)
- Reading level 1120
- Library of Congress subjects Elsa (Lion), Lions - Behavior
- Dewey Decimal Code 599.744
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Citations
- Library Journal, 07/01/2000, Page 148
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