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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.
The acclaimed story of a lioness' return to the wild, illustrated with photos of the author, and her cub.
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Pertti Uutela
reviewed Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds on February 10, 2020 Born Free
This is the original first edition of Born Free from 1960, when it was entitled Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds. Later editions were to change the subtitle. Most people now know the story of a lion cub, who was raised in captivity, and then returned to the wild. This is the first part of the trilogy, written by Joy Adamson, wife of the Senior Game Warden of Kenya. Together, they made this remarkable story happen.
Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds contains many monochrome photographs, on glossy paper in groups throughout the text, with just half a dozen in colour, and a colour photograph as the frontispiece:
All the photographs are full page, or half page; a generous size as this book is larger than an average hardback. The print is "Collins Clear-Type", which is as it says a good clear text size for those who read normal print, and the paper is extremely good, of a heavy, dense quality, which has not even yellowed over the intervening 70 years. The book contains both a Preface by Lord William Percy, a friend, and a Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman, the former Game Warden of Uganda, as well as extracts from George Adamson's letters.
This is the second copy of Born Free which I bought, as it was a vast improvement on the paperback. I also had a complete audio edition, but now I have a composite, unillustrated Large Print volume, including the sequels "Living Free" and "Forever Free". That edition is where I shall review the text. (Yes, I have had four editions of this ground-breaking and influential book, in all.)
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