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  1. Joy Adamson - Wikipedia

    • Joy Adamson is best known for her conservation efforts associated with Elsa the Lioness. In 1956, 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. 展开

    Overview

    Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson (née Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and … 展开

    Biography

    Adamson was born to Victor and Traute Gessner (née Greipel) in Troppau, Silesia, Austria-Hungary (now Opava, Czech Republic), the second of three daughters. Her parents died when she was 10, and she went to live … 展开

    Murder and legacy

    On 3 January 1980, in Shaba National Reserve in Kenya, Joy Adamson's body was discovered by her assistant, Pieter Mawson. He mistakenly assumed she had been killed by a lion, and this was what was initially reported … 展开

    Bibliography

    Born Free (1960) ISBN 1-56849-551-X
    • Elsa: The Story of a Lioness (1961)
    • Living Free: The story of Elsa and her cubs (1961) ISBN 0-00-637588-X展开

     
  1. George Adamson, 83, Husband of 'Born Free' Author, Slain by …

  2. George Adamson - Wikipedia

  3. The Legacy of Joy Adamson — Google Arts & Culture

    Her efforts led to the creation of Kenya’s first wildlife reserves. When, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, George and Joy Adamson released some of the animals they had raised back into the...

  4. Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story | About | Nature - PBS

    2010年12月30日 · Born Free was a game changer that essentially altered the way we perceive relationships between humans and animals. Because of the emotional bond George and Joy Adamson formed with Elsa, lions ...

  5. Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story | Adamson Timeline

    2012年9月6日 · 1980 – Joy Adamson is killed in Kenya. Initially thought to be a lion attack, it is later proven that her murderer was an angry employee. 1980 – George’s brother Terence Adamson is mauled...

  6. Joy Adamson | Wildlife Artist, Naturalist

    Following an education in Vienna, she relocated to Kenya (1939), where she married George Adamson (1944), a British game warden who had worked in Kenya as a gold prospector, goat trader, and safari hunter from 1924. She …

  7. The Great Safari: The Lives of George and Joy Adamson, Famous …

  8. NATURE: Elsa's Legacy: The Born Free Story | KPBS …

    2011年1月5日 · Starring real-life husband and wife Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna as George and Joy Adamson, it became a box office hit and award-winner, and turned Travers and McKenna into wildlife...

  9. Joy Adamson - Encyclopedia.com