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| Born Free: A Lioness of Two Worlds | 
| Author: Joy Adamson
Publisher: Pantheon
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 229692
Media: Paperback
Edition: Anv
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0375714383
Dewey Decimal Number: 599.757
EAN: 9780375714382
ASIN: 0375714383
Publication Date: May 16, 2000
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| Customer Reviews:
You Will Never Look at a Lion in the Same Way ever Aagin March 17, 2000
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
"Roooaarrr!" The ferocious lioness roared like thunder as the tiny bullet pierced through its thick golden hair. After the lioness fell to the rocky ground, a soft, almost scared, whimper rose from the deadly awkward silence. The lioness had had a cub. What should Joy Adamson do? Leave the cub on it's own where it could die easily in one night alone? Joy Ademson, the author of this book, Born Free, opened up a new wild door in my reading. She opened up a door into a room filled with real life problems, adventures, and emotions. This wasn't like any other book I'd read before. It was as if I was there, raising the tiny cub myself. I extremely loved this book. You'll read it in a flash, I did, and I'm not even a good reader. If you are an animal freak, you'll enjoy the little adventures this book fills in your head. Even if you're not an animal freak... well I didn't think I was either, until now.
An exciting adventure of a growing lioness. January 11, 2000
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
"Born Free" is about an orphaned lion cub, named Elsa. Elsa grows up with a game warden, his wife, and thier safari crew in northern Kenya, Africa. Joy Adamson,the game warden's wife, mainly raises Elsa herself. The book describes thier strong bond and crazy adventures throughout Elsa's life.This book is very enjoyable to read, and the pictures are a delight to look at. It is exciting to read about Elsa interacting with the other wild animals and then going home at night to a totally different world. This book was extremely hard to put down, and I would recomend it to all animal lovers.
 You'll fall in-love with Elsa June 1, 1999
1 out of 10 found this review helpful
I never wanted to see the movie "Born Free" because animal movies upset me too much. Well, I made the mistake of watching it one night on cable and couldn't stop crying. No joke. I was still crying the next day. It upset me. So I got the book "Born Free," and read it in just two or three days. I felt better after reading the book, because in the movie, Elsa, the lion, being left alone to fend for herself in the wild seemed very cruel to me. I got angry at Joy Adamson. The book shows that Elsa wasn't just thrown out into the wild all of a sudden. It was more gradual. I still felt sorry for Elsa though. I think Elsa should have been sent to the zoo (in Holland I think) with her sisters. She died way too young. Joy was very selfish in keeping Elsa and then forcing her to learn how to live in the wild when she had been so domesticated and pampered as a house pet. She really wasn't thinking of Elsa, only of herself.
The entire series by Joy is a delight to read March 11, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
The stories in this book as well living free and forever free will captivate any reader and make you laugh and cry as if you were there....
"I normally read Stephen King and I LOVED this series&Elsa February 12, 1999
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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