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...even in the lion's own domain. Unlike most books about pets, which can only be classed with disposable Kitty Litter, this one is not sentimental. The subject, a female felis leo somaliensis, is too big for that. This great creature was the pet and pride of Joy Adamson, a Kenya game warden's wife, and she has communicated the delight and wonder of life with the lioness experienced by herself and her husband George...
BORN FREE (220 pp.)-Joy Adamson -Pantheon...
Delinquency in Lions. Mrs. Adamson called her prodigious pet Elsa because it reminded her of a friend (not presumably Elsa Maxwell, the social lion tamer), and is quite formidable in her own way-one of those dauntless dames of the British Empire able to treat the fauna of 120,000 square miles of African semidesert with the regal confidence of a Scarsdale matron patting into place the play patterns of her daughter's age group. Only such a woman would speak of the gruesome noises outside the camp at night as the "chuckles" of a hyena...
...Born Free, Adamson...
...This House Be Safe from Tigers, King (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. The Law and the Profits, Parkinson (3) 4. The Enemy Within, Kennedy (4) 5. Act One, Hart (7) 6. I Kid You Not, Paar 7. Grant Moves South, Catton (6) 8. Born Free, Adamson (8) 9. The Joy of Music, Bernstein 10. My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Flynn...