Word: adamson
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...Author Adamson showed her own astonishing trust; after the cubs were born she tried to follow Elsa to her lair, and relates matter-of-factly that "Elsa walked over to me and knocked me over in a friendly way, but it was very obvious that she was expressing annoyance at finding us so close." The author's serenity at such moments is so complete that it is hard to remember that the clout came from one of the world's deadliest beasts, made even more dangerous by motherhood...
Elsa's British publisher visited the camp and awoke one morning to find himself pinned to his cot by the lioness, who nibbled affectionately at his face. Den Mother Adamson was severe: "I gave her such a beating that she sulkily left the tent." By this time the reader has become as fond as the author of this literary lion, and it is a sad thing to read, on the last page, that there will be no more books about Elsa. She died of a blood disease early this year (TIME...