JOY ADAMSON - Born Free. A Lioness of Two Worlds

London England, Collins & Harvill Press, 1961. 11th Impression, Binding: Decorative Boards, Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Hardback Hardback. Very slight foxing to end inside covers. With extracts from George Adamson's letters. Preface by Lord William Percy. Foreword by Captain Charles Pitman. The history of their lioness 'Elsa', reared from earliest infancy to three years old and finally returned to a wild life, forms a unique and illuminating study in animal psychology - a subject to which the last half-century has seen a wholly new approach. To whatever way of thinking the reader of Elsa's history may lean, it provides a record of absorbing interest depicting the gradual development of a controlled character which few would have credited as possible in the case of an animal potentially as dangerous as any in the world. Illustrated. 160 pp.