Joy Adamson
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Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a Czech-born Austrian-Kenyan naturalist, artist and author. Her book, Born Free, describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. Born Free was printed in
Adamson with Elsa the lioness, autumn 1960
George Adamson
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George Alexander Graham Adamson MBE, also known as the Baba ya Simba, was a British wildlife conservationist and author, based in Kenya. His wife Joy Adamson related in her best-selling book Born Free
Joy Adamson
…and it was he who encouraged her to continue sketching and painting the flora and fauna in her surroundings. She met her third husband, wildlife warden George Adamson, while on safari in the early 1940s and married him in 1944. They made their home together in Kenya. In 1956, George Adamson, in the course of his job…
Adamson (left) in 1968