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LIVING FREE (161 pp.)-Joy Adamson-Harcourt, Brace & World...
Eccentricities are mysteriously but reliably national. Balloonists are French, bomb throwers Bulgars, weeping drinkers Polish or Russian, and anyone who keeps a lioness as a pet is certain to be British. Author Joy Adamson was born in Vienna, but years of marriage to a senior game warden in Kenya were sufficient to infect her with a Briton's daft fondness for treating animals the way other people treat children...
...years ago George Adamson shot a lioness in self-defense. In Born Free, a bestseller of 1960, Author Adamson related how she adopted one of the orphaned cubs, named her Elsa, and raised her in the Adamson house at Isiolo, Kenya. When Elsa reached her full growth, Joy Adamson decided that Elsa should be set free, laboriously taught the house-trained animal to behave like a lioness. Almost beyond question, Joy Adamson was the first human being ever to teach a lion to track down and kill an antelope...
Roar from Father. Living Free follows Elsa and her human den mother from the lioness' mating, at the beginning of September 1959, through the birth of three cubs 108 days later. The Adamsons established a camp in the game reserve where Elsa had been turned loose, and kept a herd of goats to be doled out when the pregnant lioness could not hunt for herself (Joy Adamson is sentimental about all kinds of animals, but she is a realist, and pet lions do not eat canned cat food). Elsa's life in the bush did not affect...
...Third Reich, Shirer (1) 2. Who Killed Society? Amory (2) 3. Fate Is the Hunter, Gann (4) √ 4. The White Nile, Moorehead (7) 5. Japanese Inn, Statler (6) 6. The Waste Makers, Packard (3) 7. The Snake Has AH the Lines, Kerr (5) √ 8. Born Free, Adamson (8) 9. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy (9) 10. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell - Position on last week's list...