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Born Free, by Joy Adamson. The author, drawing on her own experience as the wife of a Kenya gamekeeper, gives a detailed and fascinating solution to one of the least urgent problems of the century -how to bring up a lion...
NONFICTION 1. May This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (5) 4. I Kid You Not, Paar (4) 5. Born Free, Adamson (9) 6. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (3) 7. Act One, Hart (6) 8. The Night They Burned the Mountain, Dooley (8) 9. Grant Moves South, Catton (7) 10. Hollywood Rajah, Crowther - Position on last week's list...
...Frontier Province of Kenya was to enforce a doctrine of apartheid between man and beast-to see that men did not kill the animals and, as far as possible, that the animals did not kill the men. Elsa was one of a litter of three cubs orphaned when George Adamson shot their mother. As a result, George felt in honor bound to take the cubs home to Isiolo. Kenya, to join...
...this stage, the book becomes Joy Adamson's treatise on How to Bring Up a Cat, with problems familiar to those who keep one, but lifted to the heroic plane (by the Hegelian principle that quantity turns into quality: if you get enough of something, it becomes not just more of the same thing, but something else in itself). A selection of Mrs. Adamson's wisdom includes some notable deductions about cats of all sizes...
...Born Free, Adamson...