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Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. In 1956, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden.
Joy Adamson (born Jan. 20, 1910, Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]—died Jan. 3, 1980, Shaba National Reserve, Kenya) was a conservationist who pioneered the movement to preserve African wildlife.
Illustrator, conservationist and author Joy Adamson is internationally known for her contribution to Kenya’s natural and cultural heritage. Adamson was a colorful, if at times...
Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. In 1956, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden.
Joy Adamson, née Joy-Friederike Victoria Gessner, (born Jan. 20, 1910, Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary [now Opava, Czech Republic]—died Jan. 3, 1980, Shaba National Reserve, Kenya), conservationist who pioneered the movement to preserve African wildlife.
Joy Adamson (1910–1980) was a conservationist, illustrator and author. Much of her work is immortalized in her illustrations, books, and films, which have been pivotal in preserving the...
Feb 28, 2011 · Born Free: The Story of Elsa. Joy Adamson. Pan Macmillan, Feb 28, 2011 - Nature - 432 pages. Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the...
Sep 6, 2012 · The lives of Joy and George Adamson, the couple who adopted the famous lioness, Elsa.
In my lifetime I was a naturalist, wildlife preservationist, speaker and writer. I was best known for my book, Born Free, which became an Academy Award-winning film about our work raising and releasing ‘Elsa the Lioness’ who had been orphaned as a cub.
Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name.
