Born Free
A Lioness of Two Worlds
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group · Print & ebook · May 16, 2000
There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when The New York Times hailed it as a “fascinating and remarkable book,” Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.
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- Who it’s for
- A moving account of a lion cub’s passage from captivity toward the wild.
- Themes
- Human-animal bonds, Captivity and return to the wild, Threats to wild habitats
- Genres
- Naturalists' Lives, Wildlife, Mammals
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There have been many accounts of the return to the wild of tame animals, but since its original publication in 1960, when The New York Times hailed it as a “fascinating and remarkable book,” Born Free has stood alone in its power to move us.
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Joy Adamson's story of a lion cub in transition between the captivity in which she is raised and the fearsome wild to which she is returned captures the abilities of both humans and animals to cross the seemingly unbridgeable gap between their radically different worlds. Especially now, at a time when the sanctity of the wild and its inhabitants is increasingly threatened by human development and natural disaster, Adamson's remarkable tale is an idyll, and a model, to return to again and again. Illustrated with the same beautiful, evocative photographs that first enchanted the world forty years ago and updated with a new introduction by George Page, former host and executive editor of the PBS series Nature and author of Inside the Animal Mind, this anniversary edition introduces to a new generation one of the most heartwarming associations between man and animal.
Between Two Worlds
A moving account of a lion cub’s passage from captivity toward the wild.
Come here for
- The uneasy boundary between human and animal worlds
- A return-to-the-wild story told with feeling
Expect
- An emotionally resonant animal narrative
- Evocative photographs in this anniversary edition
Where it sits
| Naturalists' Lives | 64% |
|---|---|
| Wildlife | 63% |
| Mammals | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Central African History
- Animals
- Wildlife
- Authors
- Joy Adamson
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Published
- May 16, 2000
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Human-animal bonds · Captivity and return to the wild · Threats to wild habitats
- Reading lane
- Central African History