Born Free
A Lioness of Two Worlds (Story of Elsa, #1)
Recommended by Karen Paolillo, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #4 in Lion, Ranked #11 in Wildlife — see more rankings.
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... more
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... more
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Karen Paolillo I want everyone to read about how Elsa the lioness not only returned to her own world, but in that world where she was a lioness she still had room for her human adoptive parents. (Source)
Rankings by Category
Born Free is ranked in the following categories:
- #25 in Animal Behavior
- #69 in Animals
- #39 in Zoology
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