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Joy Adamson

Adamson with Elsa the lioness, autumn 1960<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00v1xk5/elsa-the-lioness 'Elsa the Lioness']. BBC, 3 February 1961. Retrieved 19 September 2024</ref> Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson ( Gessner; 20 January 1910 – 3 January 1980) was a naturalist, artist and author. Her book, ''Born Free'', describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa. ''Born Free'' was printed in several languages and made into an Academy Award-winning movie of the same name. In 1977, she was awarded the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art. Provided by Wikipedia
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