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First published in 1960 and closely followed by a hit movie of the same name, Joy Adamson's now classic memoir Born Free continues to introduce countless young people to the wildlife of Africa. Adamson recounts her adventures as the surrogate mother of an orphaned lion cub named Elsa (with parenting duties shared by her husband George and by a delightfully imperturbable rock hyrax named Pati), whom she raised as a welcome member of her human and animal family while painstakingly teaching Elsa the skills she would need to survive in the wild. Her teaching, against all odds, was effective: three years later, the Adamsons took Elsa to a place near that of her birth and set her loose, hoping that she would find her "real pride" among other lions of the Kenya grasslands--as she soon did. Long targeted to preteen readers, Born Free is in fact a sophisticated work of environmental consciousness-raising, for Joy Adamson believed that any relationship between humans and wild animals had to be conditioned by an attitude "of absolute equality quite different from that between a dog and his master." Although Elsa's story had an ultimately tragic ending--the young lioness died of disease and, in separate incidents, Joy and George Adamson were both murdered--Joy Adamson's book continues to instruct and entertain readers of all ages. --Gregory McNamee
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“Moving and incredible, [with] some of the most extraordinary photographs ever seen.” —The New York Times“Elsa and the Adamsons are ideal figures in a peaceable kingdom.” —The New Yorker
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Product details
Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Pantheon; Anniversary edition (May 16, 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0375714383
ISBN-13: 978-0375714382
Product Dimensions:
6.1 x 0.6 x 9.2 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.5 out of 5 stars
83 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#89,673 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
I know people get hung up on the movie -- which I have never seen. However, it is so much more to read the book written by Joy Adamson and to see the pictures she and George took. The pictures are truly marvelous and I would think it was wroth the cost of the book just to see the pictures. Elsa, the lioness of two worlds, got to the point that she did not like the camera (a black shiny box always pointed at her) and one day she got it and ran off with it over the rocks. She proceeded to chew on itand shook it in every way possible while her "parents" attempted to get it back. When they did recover it, they found she had not done a great deal of damage to the thing which she disliked so much. You won't get that from the movie. ENJOY!!!!!
Great digital transfer. Note: while the ebook is titled as "Born Free," it includes the entire trilogy (Living Free, Forever Free.) These aren't available separately, only in this edition. Also, this does NOT include any of the pictures that always accompany the physical book, just in case that's part of your consideration here.
Here's what I think modern readers are afraid to say: the Born Free legacy is incredible, but the book that started it all...isn't. Born Free was an exciting, eye-opening read in 1960 because it dispelled myths about the savagery of "darkest Africa," it was the most cutting edge information anyone had about lions at the time, and it sparked an interest in conversation, making wild animals personable and deserving of protection rather than fierce beasts to be hunted.Joy and George Adamson were the first two people we know of who were able to introduce a tame lion back into the wild. Born Free is Joy's story about that project, and the one to protect Elsa's three half-wild cubs. The 50th anniversary edition of Born Free is the sum total of Joy Adamson's journalistic descriptions of daily life with Elsa over the years. Once I had the idea of Elsa's duality, her habits, and how Adamson related to her and helped her, I found the rest of the book repetitive and at times tedious and too subjective.If you want the whole story of Born Free, watch the great BBC documentary, The Born Free Legacy (2010). Whereas Adamson focuses entirely on the lions in her book, the documentary does this but also covers the incredible worldwide reaction to the book, the beginning of natural history channels and interest in wildlife in general the book helped to spark, the interesting lives of the authors and their rough marriage, the controversy about the way Adamson overused anthropomorphism, and the eventual grim murder of the authors and her husband.If you watch that documentary, and find a way to read the original, much shorter Born Free, you've got the whole incredible story and you've spent less hours than you would if you only read the book. Even if you do insist on reading the book, I think you'll find that Adamson's explanation of Elsa's behaviors is a little too subjective given the rigor you've become used to in the last few decades of animal research. I'm not sure anyone today would claim that an animal is apologetic, or embarrassed, or proud, as easily as Adamson does. It was distracting, and hurt Adamson's credibility in my eyes.Finally, someone else noted that all the great pictures are missing from the Kindle edition. Dude. I'm telling you, just watch the BBC documentary.
I have already rated this transaction once. Did you not receive it? Very disappointed that the book is a pocket sized printing of a great story. Was expecting a full sized book, not a child's sized toy. And we all know what goes with a small sized book.....small sized print. Even with reading glasses eye strain prevents one from reading for very long. Unless I missed the description, there is nothing showing size of the book. I select my books on full sized, easy to read printings.
Anyone who follows my book reviews knows that I only give five-star reviews. Not that all the books I read are worthy of five stars--far from it--it's just that as a busy author myself, I don't have time to review books unless they warrant five-stars. I'm going to make the exception here.I originally read all three books in the Born Free series when I was about fourteen. Had I reviewed them then, I would have given each book five stars. Unfortunately, this series hasn't aged well.First, there's the packaging. I purchased the Kindle 50th Anniversary Edition, called "Born Free: The Full Story." Nowhere (that I could find) does the publisher state exactly what you are purchasing. As near as I can tell, this version includes "Born Free," "Living Free," and "Forever Free" all in one book, with the introductions of the second two books removed. The book names are missing and simply called Part One, Part Two, and Part Three. If I had the print versions of the actual books, I could compare, but there's only so much effort I'm willing to put into a review.Also, the photos are hidden in the back and not mentioned on the Contents Page. My guess is that the majority of readers will never find the photos.As I started reading the book, I became hooked. The first part is a great story. But as the story went on, I had to keep convincing myself that the parts that made me cringe were "historical." Then, shortly into what I think was the second book, I gave up.Here's why:1) During their lives (both are dead now) Joy Adamson and her husband, George, maintained a reputation for being conservationists, but I have never subscribed to the theory of conservation-through- killing. Joy mentioned how much they hated killing animals, but then recounted what seemed like daily animal killings at the end of George's gun. At first the killings were justified, to help Elsa (though excessively so, as once George even killed three animals to leave at separate locations for Elsa), but elsewhere George shoots other animals, such as a crocodile and an "aggressive" cobra.2) George's job was as a game warden, in charge of stopping poaching. I'm a huge supporter of eliminating poaching, but in the Born Free series it seemed as if poaching rules only applied to blacks. Time after time when an unknown black person appeared in the book, Joy Adamson's next sentence was to accuse that person of being a poacher. Perhaps she was right. But why was it okay for George to casually shoot a crocodile and then a few days later arrest a tribesman for doing the same thing?3) Eventually the book just became redundant: look for Elsa; find Elsa; kill something for Elsa; leave Elsa for a few days, and repeat. I found myself mentally screaming at the pages: "Elsa is a wild lion now. You did your job. It's time to let her go!" But obviously if the Adamson's left Elsa alone, there wouldn't be any sequels to the first book.Finally, when Joy Adamson berated her cook/servant for not "following her instructions" when preparing her plum pudding on Christmas Eve, I had enough and dumped out of the book. I just wasn't enjoying the way she treated non-white people and animals other than lions (she even called hyenas "sinister").In the early 1960s, the Born Free series was ahead of its time, but now I think anyone who respects people of different races and/or animals of different species would find it difficult to enjoy these books. If you do read them, the best way to do so is by repeating to yourself throughout the pages: "I'm reading this as a historical document. I'm reading this as a historical document. I'm reading this as a historical document. . . ."Marty Essen, author of "Endangered Edens" (to be published in January 2016)and Cool Creatures, Hot Planet: Exploring the Seven Continents
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