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Living Free

by Joy Adamson · 1961

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The astonishing story of Joy Adamson's friendship with Elsa the lioness and her cubs.

LIVING FREE is a vivid, day-by-day record of the development of this friendship, from the time of Elsa's mating with a wild lion until her cubs are one year old.

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"Deeply moving... A book about love, written by a human who lives by love rather than by convention and fear." — Gavin Maxwell, Observer

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animalsanimalsMore like thisLess of thisnaturenatureMore like thisLess of thiscatscatsMore like thisLess of thischildhoodchildhoodMore like thisLess of thisenvironmentenvironmentMore like thisLess of this
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KenyaKenyaMore like thisLess of thisAfricaAfricaMore like thisLess of this
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childrens
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short · 159 pages

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