Joy Adamson

Friederike Victoria "Joy" Adamson was a Austrian-Kenyan naturalist, artist and author. Her book Born Free, which describes her experiences raising a lion cub named Elsa, 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.

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