![]() ![]() George realized the lioness was protecting her cubs, which were later found nearby. In 1956, Adamson's husband, George Adamson, in the course of his job as game warden of the Northern Frontier District in Kenya, shot and killed a lioness as she charged him and another warden. In her autobiography The Searching Spirit, Adamson wrote about her grandmother, saying, "It is to her I owe anything that may be good in me". As a young adult, Adamson considered careers as a concert pianist, and in medicine.Īdamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. ![]() Her parents divorced when she was 10, and she went to live with her grandmother. ![]() Born Free was printed in several languages, and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name.Īdamson was born to Victor and Traute Gessner in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic), the second of three girls. Joy Adamson (20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) (born Friederike Victoria Gessner) was a naturalist, artist, and author best known for her book, Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. ![]()
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