Joy Adamson (1910-1980) is best known for the books and films depicting her work in Africa with "Elsa the Lioness," introduced in her book Born Free. Together with husband George Adamson, she raised t...
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Critical Essay by Charles L. Miller
The Peoples of Kenya is much more than a fashion catalogue, and if you overlook the text you will be passing up quite an adventure. Although tribal ways in Kenya to...
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Critical Essay by Alfred C. Ames
The Spotted Sphinx is the record of a long association, one still very much alive at the end of the book….
A book by Joy Adamson grabs a reader and holds him. I...
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Critical Essay by Anita Nygaard
Adamson's rare perception and her superb gifts of story-telling are vividly evident [in Pippa's Challenge]. She has a passion for understanding "th...
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Critical Essay by Elspeth Huxley
[The Searching Spirit: An Autobiography] is a unique story, told with the directness and simplicity of all [Joy Adamson's] writings: the story of a generous, cr...
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Critical Essay by Harold Hayes
An altogether admirable person, [Joy Adamson] has lived a rambunctious, large-scale, productive life, her own best example of one of the very few introspections to be fo...
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Critical Essay by Peggy Crane
Like other women who have fallen in love with Africa—Dame Margery Perham being a superb example—Joy Adamson is a woman of many talents. Unlike Dame Margery,...
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Critical Essay by John Wanamaker
To one who is familiar with Joy Adamson's tireless fieldwork, her disappointments as well as her achievements in international wildlife conservation, ["T...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Durrell
There have been many books written by people who have hand-reared wild animals, and then kept them around the house in a state of semi-domestication. But, interesting ...
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Critical Essay by Gerald Durrell
In "Living Free" Mrs. Adamson tells us the whole story of Elsa's mating, the birth of the cubs, their development and of Elsa's unfortunate...
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Critical Essay by Ted Hughes
There are stories of wild tigers living in the camps of Jungle Indians, fading off when strangers approach, and stories of baboons joining in the games of Kaffir boys ...
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Critical Essay by Julian Huxley
I found [Living Free] an absorbing story. First, because it gives the reader the genuine feeling of the African bush. (p. xxii)
But that, fascinating though it is, is o...
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Critical Essay by John Hughes
In a sense ["Forever Free"] is the saddest of the trio. It tells of Elsa's death and it is an intensely moving, and at times harrowing, story…...
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Joy Adamson
